Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy.

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 ...

Apple’s M1 is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) chip, while Intel and AMD’s processors are Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) chips.

Ultimately, both x86 processors and the POWER line do a kind of CISC/RISC-to-CISC dynamic translation, where they transform the static, compiler-facing ISA into a complex internal instruction ...

MemoryLogix is not developing a full-fledged microprocessor, but rather a hybrid intellectual-property (IP) core that combines a 586-based central processing unit, MMX multimedia instructions, L1 ...

In the 1980s, RISC (reduced instruction set computing), changed the rules of computing. The premise of RISC was that earlier CISC (complex instruction set computing) processors used only about 20 ...

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. CISC ...

CISC core runs RISC-like, says Renesas Renesas Electronics has increased the performance of its RX processor core, with a 4.0 Coremark MHz or 2.0 DMIPS/MHz RXv2 core. The CISC microcontroller now has ...

RISC-V aims to break up the proprietary hold on processor design in exactly the same way that open-source software liberated huge swathes of the industry.

The premise of RISC was that earlier CISC (complex instruction set computing) processors used only about 20 percent of the instructions they implemented.