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

Apple’s M1 is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) chip, while Intel and AMD’s processors are Complex Instruction Set Computer (CISC) chips.

The major difference between a RISC processor and a CISC processor, such as Intel’s x86, can be viewed as a tug-of-war between programmers and chip designers.

RISC stands for “Reduced Instruction Set Computing,” and it was developed in the early ‘80s to fix a lot of the problems in early processors.

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.

The Fedora Linux project is “jumping on the RISC-V train,” joining other Linux distributions in supporting the emerging CPU architecture. RISC-V is an open-standard Instruction Set ...

What we know for sure is Apple is looking to hire someone with extensive experience with RISC-V, an open source processor architecture based on RISC, which stands for Reduced Instruction Set Computer.

Alibaba's Damo Academy to launch new RISC-V processor, C930, in response to US trade restrictions. RISC-V gaining traction as alternative.