EDN

Renesas develops new CISC architecture

MUNICH, Germany — For embedded applications in office automation, consumer electronics and industrial systems, Renesas has developed a new 32-bit microcontroller family. Now the company provided first ...
Engadget

Apple's building its own Mac chips | Upscaled

Welcome to Upscaled, our explainer show where we dig into the bits of tech that make your gadgets faster. Today, I want to talk about instruction set architectures. Apple announced it's building its ...
Design-Reuse

Renesas Technology Completes Design of CPU Core for Next-Generation Microcontrollers, and introduces details of 'RX Family'

The new MCUs will be built on a 90-nm flash process and achieve the world's top-class performance and code efficiency among CISC devices TOKYO, November 8, 2007 -- Renesas Technology Corp. today ...
EDN

Instruction Set Architecture

Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) is a set of instructions defined for the processor’s architecture. These are the instructions that the processor understands. It defines the hardware and software ...
Ars Technica

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip

RISC is a somewhat misleading term, as a RISC processor doesn't *have* to have fewer instructions in its ISA than a CISC system (Though RISC architectures do tend to try to do so). For example, the ...