Today, "RISC versus CISC" obscures more than it explains ... As part of that process, native x86 instructions were fed into an x86 decoder and translated to "RISC-like" micro-ops before being ...

Unlike 1998, though, RISC vs. CISC actually matters ... pair of fast decoders and what percentage go through the one slow decoder, but these percentages are fairly important.

CISC: the Post-RISC Era." In the conclusion to that article ... that could be fused together and then pushed through a single decoder. Macrofusion thus gave Core's front-end a free "virtual ...

In my post The Start of the Arm Era I said that it feels like something significant is changing. There's something Arm-y in the air. Suddenly Arm is faster than all x86 processors except the highest ...

being internally a RISC processor with a CISC ISA decoder front-end that breaks CISC instructions into the RISC instructions (micro-opcodes) for its CPU core. At least as far as the CISC versus ...

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 ...

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. The co-processing core is called the ‘flexible fusion engine’ ...

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 ...