And if CISC won, then RISC was a useful idea whose time came and went, and some of its better ideas live on because Intel has adopted them for its x86 family.

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

CISC chips became more RISC-like, while RISC chips ramped up complexity, capabilities, and die size. A good example of this trend is the entire ARM vs. x86 debate.

The linkage between "ARM versus x86" and "CISC versus RISC" is so strong, every single story on the first page of Google results defines the first with reference to the second.

I was just wanting to know if anyone can tell me if the new athlon mp and xp's are risc chips or if they went to cisc. I know the older AMD chips were all RISC, but not sure of the newer ones ...

Intel, too, has joined the RISC party, offering multiprocessor solutions — such as its Infrastructure Processing Unit — that combine CISC and RISC on the same platform.

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 ...

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 ...

At least as far as the CISC versus RISC ISA wars go, here we can say that RISC decidedly won. Many flavors of RISC ...

Arm is the most successful microprocessor architecture on the planet, but a rival called RISC-V has emerged, and its proponents held an event to tout it.