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 ...

RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era For any Ars Technica readers who've been with us since 1998 and who fondly … Jon Stokes – May 18, 2008 11:30 pm | 0 ...

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 ...

The conflict between RISC and CISC chip instruction sets (ISAs) ... The 9950X3D is a 16-core processor with a 4.3GHz base clock speed and a boost speed of 5.7GHz, ...

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.

Commentary--Despite what has been written (and rewritten) about the potential obsolescence of platforms based on RISC processors, they keep on going and going. Indeed, RISC processors have never ...

The internal RISC ISAs are not documented, but they should generally be similar to well-known RISC ISAs, such as Arm or RISC-V. CPU microcode is a low-level layer that translates complex x86 CISC ...

These first forays into the world of simplified processor architecture both paved the way for the RISC platforms we know today such as ARM and RISC-V, but also helped CISC platforms make ...

The 9950X3D is a powerhouse of a desktop processor, ... The conflict between RISC and CISC chip instruction sets (ISAs) — "reduced" designs versus "complex" ones — rages on to this day with ...