Today, if you want to build a high-performance computing device, you can almost certainly find all the software you need in a free and open form. The same is not true for the processor chips that run ...

This association mistakenly suggests that "x86 versus ARM" can be classified neatly into "CISC versus RISC," with x86 being CISC and ARM being RISC. Thirty years ago, this was true. It's not true ...

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 ...

A new instruction set by the original creator of MIPS aims to reinvent the ultra-low power, high-efficiency processor -- and to do so with an architecture that's fundamentally open and available to ...

Ten years ago, I waded into the then-raging "Mac vs. PC" wars with a lengthy treatise on "RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era." In the conclusion to that article, I declared the "RISC vs. CISC" debate ...

A new technical paper titled “Automatically Retargeting Hardware and Code Generation for RISC-V Custom Instructions” was ...

SAN MATEO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Dr. Yunsup Lee, CTO of SiFive, and Dr. Krste ...

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 ...

Blueshift’s BlueFive RISC-V processor addresses Memory and Energy Walls BlueFive claims faster calculations, lower energy use via data optimization Validated design integrates memory controller, CPU ...

At WWDC, Apple announced a radical change to its computers. The company is dropping Intel as its CPU provider, and will be transitioning its laptops and desktops to custom Apple-designed chips over ...