Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

RISC is a term coined by David Patterson and David Ditzel in their 1981 seminal paper " The Case for a Reduced Instruction Set Computer." The two men proposed a new approach to semiconductor design ...

A new study comparing the Intel X86, the ARM and MIPS CPUs finds that microarchitecture is more important than instruction set architecture, RISC or CISC. If you are one of the few hardware or ...

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 ...

One of the features of Ars Premier 2.0 is subscriber-only content such as live chats and articles. Tonight, we're announcing our next Premier 2.0 feature, a retrospective on the past ten years of RISC ...

CISC vs RISC returns One of the key difference between Arm and x86 is that Arm designs a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC), while the x86 architecture is a Complex Instruction Set Computer ...

RISC vs. CISC wars raged in the 1980s when chip area and processor design complexity were the primary constraints and desktops and servers exclusively dominated the computing landscape. Today, energy ...

At the beginning, RISC chips could perform the same work as a traditional chip (later labeled “Complex Instruction Set Computing” or CISC) in less time, were easier to design, and cheaper to ...

RISC-V is improving day by day, and a team already documented their process to get The Witcher 3 and Stray running on the architecture.