Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager (HAXM)
HAXM is a hardware-assisted virtualization engine (hypervisor) that uses Intel Virtualization Technology to speed up IA (x86/ x86_64) emulation on a host machine running Windows or macOS. It started as an Android SDK component, but has recently transformed itself into a general accelerator for QEMU. HAXM can be built as either a kernel-mode driver for Windows or a kernel extension for macOS.[…]
See-also:
https://01.org/android-ia/q-and-a/what-haxm
https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-accelerated-execution-manager-intel-haxm