Without this kind of device, there would be no Intel. Known as MCEMU, it's a future generation processor emulator: quarter of a million dollars' worth of reprogrammable logic chips configured to imitate silicon as yet uncreated. The emulated terascale processor runs at 4MHz — around 1,000 times slower than the real thing — but it gives the engineers complete access to everything that happens inside the chip when it's running real software.






