From Instant Social Conversion: More thoughts on Apple / Intel:

The big winner in all of this is Transitive, who is supplying the JIT emulation layer that Apple is calling Rosetta…

…This technology is bigger than Google in depth and market stickiness

Read this article. It goes into detail about how emulation software will revolutionize computing. It frees systems from being locked into a single chip architecture. This would lead to faster, and more powerful systems on many platforms.

Also, I’m sure that it will make the chip industry more competitive, acting to spur manufacturers on to develop faster and more powerful chips. Moore’s Law is not an absolute, but added competitive incentive will help keep the pace up.

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