The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions. The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) i

The article is probably describing RISC-V as growing in popularity, not number of instructions. The distinction between "reduced" (RISC) and "complex" (CISC) is more philosophical than "number of instructions." Even as the RISC-V specification gains new instructions, the modular design of the architecture is specifically designed to allow implementations to pare down to just the subset they need.