Intel chips have been RISC-like internally for years. They have an instruction decode stage that converts x86 instructions into an internal ISA that's more RISC

Intel chips have been RISC-like internally for years. They have an instruction decode stage that converts x86 instructions into an internal ISA that's more RISC-ish. Ars Technica, as always, has the details of how that has evolved over the years. Can't remember when the article in question was written, though.