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 ...

The RISC-V Summit North America, held on 22-23 October 2025 in Santa Clara, California, showcased the latest CPU cores featuring new vector processors, high-speed interfaces, and peripheral subsystems ...

NEW DELHI: The RISC-V Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) has the potential to open the tightly locked central processing unit (CPU) architecture, enabling startups and companies to develop chips for ...

Interrupt responsiveness, code execution predictability, and the ability to easily and quickly manipulate I/O pins and register bits are also important considerations. Standardized benchmarks such as ...

TOKYO -- Toshiba Corp. today announced two new 32-bit complex-instruction set computer (CISC) microcontrollers with integrated 128-kilobytes of ROM and 6-Kbytes of RAM. The MCUs are the industry's ...

ECARX launched its RISC-V-based EXP01 processor and outlined its automotive-grade MCU roadmap at the RISC-V Summit Europe 2025. ECARX Holdings Inc., a global mobility tech provider, introduced its ...