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.

They offered the term "CISC" -- Complex Instruction Set Computer -- to describe many of the various CPU architectures already in existence that did not follow the tenets of RISC. This perceived ...

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 ...

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 its CISC approach ... to the company, the architecture allows processing both data and addresses in all 16 available registers. An integrated floating point unit will take over and speed up ...

Ultimately, however, they both won--CISC in software and RISC in hardware. The x86 architecture dominates the PC and server markets, but the guts of modern x86 chips are very RISC-like.

Tonight, we're announcing our next Premier 2.0 feature, a retrospective on the past ten years of RISC vs. CISC since the publication of RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era in 1999 by Ars cofounder ...

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THE LIMITATIONS OF A PURE RISC DESIGN It takes me back: some of my first marketing tasks were around the religious war between RISC & CISC. However ... faster/cleaner architectures, power versus area ...

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 ...