So that explains where CISC (complex instruction-set computing) came from. The x86 processors from Advanced Micro Devices and Intel are examples of CISC processors.

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. today announced two new 32-bit complex-instruction set computer (CISC) microcontrollers with integrated 128-kilobytes of ROM and 6-Kbytes of RAM. The MCUs are the industry's ...

CISC processors evolved as the processor itself matured. For example, an early processor could have had addition and subtraction, but in a later revision the engineers decided to add ...

Intel has reentered the foundry space, having been previously in, then out and now back in, enabling this market leader to address demand for its own complex instruction set computing (CISC ...

Intel’s CPU architecture was a dead end, they said, and the day was fast approaching when the chipmaker would reach the theoretical performance limit of CISC processor designs.

CISC processors are designed to make application developers’ lives easier by reducing common operations to single, long-executing native instructions, giving CISC a reputation as a slow but ...

Thus compilers today for x86 processors don't even use the complex instructions that set CISC apart from RISC, as they can optimize faster paths.

The Prodigy ISA is a mix of RISC and CISC but doesn’t include any complex and/or long variable length, inefficient instructions that many CISC processors have.

We compared these two processors to show why, even with equal clock speeds, the SHARC had the capability to outperform the CISC processor by around 4000%.

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 ...

This two-part article examines the design decisions required when answering questions about placing DSP algorithms on an existing CISC processor system. A typical DSP algorithm with its loops ...

The dynamic translation itself requires on-chip memory, similar to microprogrammed ROMs in CISC processors. This ROM can be quite large, so the 12k-gates measurement may give a deceptive view of ...