At WWDC, Apple announced a radical change to its computers. The company is dropping Intel as its CPU provider, and will be transitioning its laptops and desktops to custom Apple-designed chips over ...

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz — A recent study in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems came to the conclusion that processor instruction set architectures, whether reduced (RISC) or complex (CISC), are ...

MUNICH, Germany — For embedded applications in office automation, consumer electronics and industrial systems, Renesas has developed a new 32-bit microcontroller family. Now the company provided first ...

At the time that the iAPX 432 (originally the 8800) project was proposed, Gordon Moore was CEO of Intel, and thus ultimately signed off on it. Intended as an indirect successor to the successful 8080 ...

Renesas Technology (San Jose, CA) is developing a next-generation CISC architecture for 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers that is said to provide revolutionary enhancementsa reduction in code size by 30 ...

Renesas Technology announces the development of the RX600 Series microcontrollers (MCUs), with performance capabilities of CISC (Complex Instruction Set Computer) based MCUs. According to Renesas, the ...

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 ...

When it comes to personal computing, most of the growth today is in the mobile market, not traditional desktop PCs and laptops. You could say that the PC concept is morphing to include next-generation ...

Simply ask yourself a question. What instruction set do AMD chips excute? If the answer is x86 then these chips are CISC. Any talk about chips being CISC outside and RISC inside is invalid given the ...

The RX microcontroller (MCU) family uses a 32-bit enhanced Harvard CISC architecture to achieve very high code density, as well as performance of 1.65 MIPS/MHz. RX is manufactured in Renesas’ reliable ...