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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 ...
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How to extend the ‘unscalable’ RISC architectures

A couple of years ago, Erik McClure (a Microsoft software developer, at the time) published a blog entitled, RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable. This blog was really quite interesting and made some very ...
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British startup launches low-power RISC-V processor design to address the twin problems of memory and energy; promises up to 50% faster calculation speeds

Blueshift’s BlueFive RISC-V processor addresses Memory and Energy Walls BlueFive claims faster calculations, lower energy use via data optimization Validated design integrates memory controller, CPU ...