Looks like mostly marketing. NISC actually has instructions, they just call them "nanocodes". They are very, very long and tied to specific CPU model, much lik

Looks like mostly marketing. NISC actually has instructions, they just call them "nanocodes". They are very, very long and tied to specific CPU model, much like VLIW processors (see Itanium). ZISC has no sequentially-executed instructions.. instead it has units doing calculations in parallel, just like FPGA and PLAs. Given that first PLA was made more than 50 years ago, I don't think NeuroMem has any rights to that title.