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 ...

RISC-V wants to do the same for processors. X. Trending. Miss out on Nintendo Switch 2 ... Intel's chips were remarkably RISC-like, with the CISC features translated into RISC instructions internally.