I, today, checked out Steam hardware graphs. I checked out the CPUs and the result was:
* Intel: 67.38%
* AMD: 32.57%
* MicrosoftXTA: 0.05%
What’s MicrosoftXTA? Does Microsoft manufacture CPUs just like Intel and AMD?
In: Technology
Intel and AMD are two rival “x86” CPU vendors. The x86 means that the CPU’s have the ability to run programs dating back to the introduction of the IBM, built at one point on the Intel 8086 chip in the 1980’s. ARM is a different CPU maker and their chips are not “x86” compatible. However, they are fast enough to fake it by means of an emulator. The emulator runs on the ARM CPU directly and makes any “x86” compatible software think it’s running on an actual x86 chip. Microsoft Windows has a version that also runs directly on ARM chips and in order for programs (games in this case) written for x86 to run here, they require the use of Microsoft’s XTA (X86 To Arm) emulator.
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