SPIR-V looks like a promising standardization. It can not be translated directly into silicon but it doesn't have to. Intel also essentially emulates x86 and runs RISC internally.
>Intel also essentially emulates x86 and runs RISC internally.
By that logic anything emulates its ISA because that is the definition of an ISA. An ISA is just the public interface of a processor. You are wrong about what x86 processors run internally. Several micro ops can be fused into a single complex one which is something that cannot be described with a term from the 60s. Come on, let the RISC corpse rot in peace. It's long overdue.
