Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
Ten years ago, I waded into the then-raging "Mac vs. PC" wars with a lengthy treatise on "RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era." In the conclusion to that article, I declared the "RISC vs. CISC" debate ...
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 ...
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