If you've spent any time looking at microprocessor block diagrams, the K5 should look familiar in a way that the Pentium doesn't. AMD bought NexGen after the launch of the Nx586.

RISC vs. CISC wars raged in the 1980s when chip area and processor design complexity were the primary constraints and desktops and servers exclusively dominated the computing landscape. Today, energy ...

Abstract: The main goal of this study is to develop a 32-bit pipelined processor with several clock domains based on the RISC-V (open source RV32I Version 2.0) ISA. To minimise the complexity of the ...