Today, "RISC versus CISC" obscures more than it explains ... is rooted in the widespread ignorance of the difference between instruction set architectures and details of physical processor ...

A new study comparing the Intel X86, the ARM and MIPS CPUs finds that microarchitecture is more important than instruction set architecture, RISC or CISC. If you are one of the few hardware or ...

As computer architecture continues its ever-widening spiral, the points on the curve that correspond to the cluster of problem-solution pairs labeled "RISC" and "CISC" will come around ever more ...

Unlike 1998, though, RISC vs. CISC actually matters, now. A close look at the design of Intel's newest mobile architecture, officially named Atom, will show why the decades-old "RISC vs.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz — A recent study in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems came to the conclusion that processor instruction set architectures, whether reduced (RISC) or complex (CISC), are ...

With the continued integration of system functions onto a single chip and the push for more specialized functions like machine learning, the competition between processor architectures is heating up.

The first microchips could be considered CISC chips, although nobody called them that until after 1980, when engineers behind increasingly refined RISC architectures sought to differentiate their ...

MIPS Technologies released details this week of the latest incarnation of the architecture that defined RISC at a time when the rest of the industry was fully engaged in CISC architecture processors.

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but ...