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 ...

Many of the differences between RISC-V, ARM, and x86 microprocessors are subtle and relate to how memory is addressed, branches are executed, exceptions are handled, and so on. This article will ...

Analysis of ARM, X86, MIPS designs shows no difference Bernard Cole, Editor of the EE Times' Microcontroller and Printed Circuit Board Designlines EETimes (6/30/2015 06:07 PM EDT) A new study ...

Even today, I imagine over 80% of the people commenting on the company’s acquisition by Softbank have no real grasp of the difference between RISC and CISC, but let me make it easy for you: It ...

And if CISC won, then RISC was a useful idea whose time came and went, and some of its better ideas live on because Intel has adopted them for its x86 family.

Do Apple's new Mac chips mean ARM has won? Apple is dropping Intel and the x86 architecture in favor of ARM and RISC.

I was just wanting to know if anyone can tell me if the new athlon mp and xp's are risc chips or if they went to cisc. I know the older AMD chips were all RISC, but not sure of the newer ones ...

In a world of RISC processors, QuickLogic created a CISC co-processor for its EOS multi-core sensor hub chip to save power in wearables.