As simple as a processor’s instruction set may seem, especially in a 1978-era one like the Intel 8086, there is quite a bit going on to go from something like a conditional jump instruction to a set ...

Renesas Technology will start sampling the first 32-bit microcontrollers based on its new Cisc processor core early next year. The RX processor has been in development for two years and is intended to ...

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. When ...

As far back as the late 1980s, chip pundits have predicted the demise of x86. Intel’s CPU architecture was a dead end, they said, and the day was fast approaching when the chipmaker would reach the ...