Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

A new study comparing the Intel X86, the ARM and MIPS CPUs finds that microarchitecture is more important than instruction set architecture, RISC or CISC. If you are one of the few hardware or ...

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...

On October 31, 2023, Apple announced the third generation Apple silicon ' M3 ' that uses Arm architecture. Apple has made great strides by switching from Intel's CPUs to their own, but they often run ...

The tablet market's technological base is going through a big change. It is clearly trending toward processors that use the ...

A Chinese research team says it has uncovered a significant security flaw in processor design that could have a wide impact on China’s booming domestic chip industry. China was relying on the ...

China's growing demand for semiconductors used in electric vehicles, high-end servers in data centres and artificial intelligence applications provides a vast opportunity for RISC-V processors to ...

The push for open source isn’t limited just to software; in fact, there’s quite a big push for open-source hardware as well. Founded in 2015, the RISC-V (pronounced “risk five”) Foundation, now RISC-V ...

Silicon Valley's Wave Computing said on Tuesday it is launching designs for two new microprocessors this year using RISC-V architecture as it sunsets its once-popular MIPS architecture. The move adds ...

That assessment was made by Peng Jianying, chief executive of Shanghai-based RISC-V intellectual property (IP) vendor Nuclei System Technology Co, before an audience of custom auto chip designers at a ...