CNET

AMD's SSE5 ends the old RISC vs. CISC debate

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...
Design-Reuse

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 ...
TechRepublic

Power Struggles: Revisiting the RISC vs. CISC Debate on Contemporary ARM and X86 Architectures

RISC vs. CISC wars raged in the 1980s when chip area and processor design complexity were the primary constraints and desktops and servers exclusively dominated the computing landscape. Today, energy ...
Ars Technica

RISC vs. CISC in the mobile era

Meanwhile, back in the day... Back in 1998, when I first began covering hardware at the newly launched Ars Technica, much of my writing focused on issues raised by the raging Mac vs. PC flame wars ...
Design-Reuse

ARM versus Intel: a successful stratagem for RISC or grist for CISC's tricks?

ARM, along with its core licensees, and Intel, along with its x86 CPU competitors, have recently taken action to put to rest any remaining doubt that both camps were on a collision course—ARM touting ...
Ars Technica

AMD chips RISC or CISC?

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 ...
EDN

ARM versus Intel: a successful stratagem for RISC or grist for CISC’s tricks?

ARM, along with its core licensees, and Intel,along with its x86 CPU competitors, have recentlytaken action to put to rest any remainingdoubt that both camps were on a collisioncourse—ARM touting its ...