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

RISC-V aims to break up the proprietary hold on processor design in exactly the same way that open-source software liberated huge swathes of the industry.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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