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 ...

A new contest inspired by Google's Zentool challenges developers to modify AMD Zen CPU microcode to run RISC-V programs ...

It can only add single bits at a time and is limited to kilohertz clock speeds, but it is capable of executing the full ...

From the consumer space it often would appear as if Intel’s CPU making ... a solid RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) architecture has its roots in Intel’s ill-fated extreme CISC ...

The conflict between RISC and CISC chip instruction sets (ISAs ... AMD has been exploring a unique approach to speeding up some of its processors with 3D V-Cache, a technology that stacks ...

RISC for smartphones. The OEMs like Dell and Apple have been using x86 CISC processor for their laptops. Let me explain here the laptop design approach. The motherboard has a multicore CISC processor ...

Many modern CPUs are dual-core (two) or quad-core (four) processors. This provides vastly superior processing power. CISC processors are physically larger and can process more complex instructions.

See TOPS and FLOPS. IPS cannot be used to compare different CPU architectures. For example, RISC CPUs require more instructions than CISC to accomplish the same task. In the past, MIPS has been ...