“RISC architecture is gonna change everything.” Those absurdly geeky, incredibly prophetic words were spoken 30 years ago. Today, they’re somehow truer than ever.

RISC vs CISC chips The technology behind nearly every modern smartphone falls into a relatively specific category of computer design.

Having worked closely with the RISC-V International open-standards group, we’ve ensured that our RISC-V MCUs are poised to help customers win new sockets in consumer, medical, industrial, and IoT ...

For example, the IBM PowerPC (a RISC architecture) has an ISA of a similar size to the IBM System 370 (a CISC architecture). Meanwhile, the DEC PDP-8 (a CISC architecture) only has 8 instructions.

Intel, which has made billions from its closed-source, complex instruction set computer (CISC) x86 processors, is joining forces with RISC-V, the open-source reduced instruction set computer (RISC ...