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 ...

V, pronounced “risk five,” is a modern open-source instruction set architecture (ISA) based on reduced instruction set ...

Disclosure. In the smaller niche of microprocessor journalism, there used to be another topic that was always good for a column: RISC vs. CISC. In the early days of computing, a CPU (central ...

The Intel X86 is one of the few chips which retain the CISC architecture. RISC-V is an open and free RISC instruction set architecture. The RISC-V community is promoting the use of RISC-V ...

The ARM-based M series is a RISC design rather than Intel's x86 CISC architecture. RISC circuits use less complex instructions, run cooler and thus save battery, which is why an ARM chip is used ...

Intel, which has made billions from its closed-source, complex instruction set computer (CISC) x86 processors, is joining forces with RISC-V, the open-source reduced instruction set computer (RISC ...

IPS cannot be used to compare different CPU architectures. For example, RISC CPUs require more instructions than CISC to accomplish the same task. In the past, MIPS has been called "MisInformation ...