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 ...

CISC processors are inherently more flexible while RISC designs can be more cost effective for specific applications. The real difference in the two can be found in the dedication of your system ...

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 ...

RISC is an alternative to the Complex Instruction Set Computing (CISC) architecture and is often considered the most efficient CPU architecture technology available today.

Longer term, the RISC advantage that ARM currently enjoys over Intel’s CISC architecture will not be sustainable.

CISC-to-CISC conversion and the ILP wall In an interview with Ars last year, RISC pioneer John Hennessey reflected on the past few years of computer architecture evolution and on the "instruction ...

The term CISC was only coined afterward and generally referred to everything not-RISC. Very long instruction word (VLIW) architectures break instructions into basic operations that can be performed by ...

With the runaway success of the new ARM-based M1 Macs, non-x86 architectures are getting their closeup. RISC-V is getting the most attention from system designers looking to horn-in on Apple's ...

Their CISC architectures ran slower in terms of cycles than MIPS’ RISC chips, but advanced silicon processing meant that the clock speeds were faster. With Intel pushing Moore’s Law aggressively, the ...

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

With the continued integration of system functions onto a single chip and the push for more specialized functions like machine learning, the competition between processor architectures is heating ...