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RISC vs CISC: What's the Difference?

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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

General-Purpose 32-bit RISC-V MCU Core Expands Design Freedom

The microcontroller sector is evolving in an exciting direction by providing designers with a growing menu of choices tailored to their performance and power requirements. Unlike the classic 1990s ...
telecom.economictimes.indiatimes

RISC-V can open up locked CPU market: Ananant Systems

NEW DELHI: The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has the potential to open the tightly locked central processing unit (CPU) architecture, enabling startups and companies to develop chips for ...
Design-Reuse

RISC versus CISC Wars in the PostPC Eras - Part 2

In my first blog, we examined gave the historical context of the instruction set battles of ARM and x86, covering the RISC-CISC Wars in the PrePC Era and the PC Era. This blog covers Round 3, the ...
scmp.com

Scientists find security risk in RISC-V open-source chip architecture that China hopes can help sidestep US sanctions

A Chinese research team says it has uncovered a significant security flaw in processor design that could have a wide impact on China’s booming domestic chip industry. China was relying on the ...