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.

A new instruction set by the original creator of MIPS aims to reinvent the ultra-low power, high-efficiency processor -- and to do so with an architecture that's fundamentally open and available to ...

RISC is a somewhat misleading term, as a RISC processor doesn't *have* to have fewer instructions in its ISA than a CISC system (Though RISC architectures do tend to try to do so). For example, the ...

Some of the articles online are framing this as a CISC-versus-RISC battle, but that's an outdated comparison. The "classic" formulation of the x86 versus ARM debate goes back to two different methods ...

Modern CISC chips today have RISC qualities and vice versa, but I’ll get into that in a minute. Clock cycles aren’t necessarily the most important thing to the M1 architecture.

Unlike RISC architectures, the architecture works with variable-length instruction words. While instructions can have a length from one to nine bytes, the most frequently used instructions are ...

At WWDC, Apple announced a radical change to its computers. The company is dropping Intel as its CPU provider, and will be transitioning its laptops and desktops to custom Apple-designed chips over ...

A couple of years ago, Erik McClure (a Microsoft software developer, at the time) published a blog entitled RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable. This blog was really quite interesting and made some very ...