High performance RISCs also have decoders and have the equivalent of uops internally as well. Their decoders are simpler than a CISC like x86, which has a very

High performance RISCs also have decoders and have the equivalent of uops internally as well. Their decoders are simpler than a CISC like x86, which has a very baroque encoding. Still the claim that x86 implementations are RISC internally is not really true.