RISC crowd presented lower number of transistors as one of the top selling points back in the day. Simpler instructions => fewer transistors => less heat => mor

RISC crowd presented lower number of transistors as one of the top selling points back in the day. Simpler instructions => fewer transistors => less heat => more room for performance, at least on paper. MUL and DIV instructions are not exactly transistor count friendly, so they caused an expected contradiction at the RISC camp back in the day.