It's a bit silly to be talking RISC and CISC these days. The big idea behind RISC is to spend your transistor budget on minimizing the cycle time of a smaller c

It's a bit silly to be talking RISC and CISC these days. The big idea behind RISC is to spend your transistor budget on minimizing the cycle time of a smaller core set of instructions. However, transistor count has been doubling for quite some time, and clock frequency has gone up by a factor of 100. The idea behind RISC no longer applies. This is observed in the numbers and the fact that every processor manufacturer has been adding video engines, crypto engines and vector units to their processors.