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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This is the approach that we have taken, by extending the CPU register file of the ARC tangent-A4 user-customizable processor and developing a twofold algorithm leveraging the hardware enhancements to ...

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 ...

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.

Anyway, RISC failed (and so did "CISC" for that matter) because it was a theoretical extreme which wasn't an optimal solution to the engineering challenges and software demands.