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> RISC designs also taken some inspirations from CISC (such as having SIMD/vectorization units) I think that one went the other way: for example the PlayStatio
by gumby 3y ago
> RISC designs also taken some inspirations from CISC (such as having SIMD/vectorization units)
I think that one went the other way: for example the PlayStation 2 used a MIPS chip with 256-bit SIMD instructions (the TMPR 5900) as well as a dedicated GPU (the so-called “emotion engine”)