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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 ...
The Android operating system is built to run on three different types of processor architecture: Arm, Intel x86, and MIPS. The former is today’s ubiquitous architecture after Intel abandoned its ...
ARM's flagship embedded part is the Cortex A-9, a modular, out-of-order core designed for multicore implementations. The A-9 was officially unveiled in late 2007, and I came away from a briefing ...
I don't want to rehash the CPU wars of the past decades in this story, but it's worth revisiting the old paradigms of CISC and RISC that applied when Patterson did his first groundbreaking work in ...
In a world of RISC processors, QuickLogic created a CISC co-processor for its EOS multi-core sensor hub chip to save power in wearables. The co-processing core is called the ‘flexible fusion engine’ ...
Nordic Semiconductor has announced an SoCs for Bluetooth Low Energy, LE Audio, Bluetooth mesh, Thread and Matter with “multiple Arm Cortex-M33 processors, clocked up to 320MHz” and “multiple RISC-V ...
RISC vs. CISC wars raged in the 1980s when chip area and processor design complexity were the primary constraints and desktops and servers exclusively dominated the computing landscape.
ARM, along with its core licensees, and Intel,along with its x86 CPU competitors, have recentlytaken action to put to rest any remainingdoubt that both camps were on a collisioncourse—ARM touting its ...
Just when you thought everything in the semiconductor sector that could happen had happened, the RISC vs. CISC war is rearing its head again with the introduction of 64-bit processors from ARM.
ARM, along with its core licensees, and Intel, along with its x86 CPU competitors, have recently taken action to put to rest any remaining doubt that both camps were on a collision course—ARM touting ...