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 ...

TOKYO — Toshiba Corp. today announced two new 32-bit complex-instruction set computer (CISC) microcontrollers with integrated 128-kilobytes of ROM and 6-Kbytes of RAM. The MCUs are the industry's ...

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 ...

We compared these two processors to show why, even with equal clock speeds, the SHARC had the capability to outperform the CISC processor by around 4000%.

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 ...

The Prodigy ISA is a mix of RISC and CISC but doesn’t include any complex and/or long variable length, inefficient instructions that many CISC processors have.

Despite what has been written (and rewritten) about the potential obsolescence of platforms based on RISC processors, they keep on going and going. Indeed, RISC processors have never been more ...

Embedded Java implementations run up against performance problems because of the stack structures the language requires. Java implements a stack-based programming model, in which two stacks are ...

A classic choice is whether to add to legacy code, add a DSP CPU to the system, or go for an entirely new system. This article is the first of a two-part series. Part II is scheduled to appear in the ...