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CISC designs have largely faded, in fact, since the beginning of the 32-bit era. Contemporary X86 is internally a RISC design. Not to mention all contemporary s
by CyberRabbi 6y ago
CISC designs have largely faded, in fact, since the beginning of the 32-bit era. Contemporary X86 is internally a RISC design. Not to mention all contemporary so-called RISC processors (power, arm) have hundreds of instructions and plenty non-risc style instructions.
- fulafel 6y agoRe your second point: CISC and RISC are primarily characterisations of the instruction set architecture, not microarchitecture. (And of course this microarchitecture level translation was done with microcode already long before RISC was invented. )