Reduced Instruction Set Computer, or RISC, is a processor architecture that uses a simplified instruction set that leads to faster execution of programs. This term was viewed 4,997 times.

Back in the early days of computing, manufacturers didn't build a whole line of software-compatible computer systems where each system was aimed at a different price/performance point. Instead, each ...

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If you are limiting yourself to only 16 instructions, which ones should you chose, and how do you manage without the ones that fall by the wayside? In my previous column on our project to build a ...

When Busicom contracted with Intel in April 1969 to create a series of custom chips for five upcoming calculators, neither company realized it was creating the template for what ultimately came to be ...

[Hasith] sent in this project where he goes through the process of designing a one instruction CPU in Verilog. It may not win a contest for the coolest build on Hack A Day, but we really do appreciate ...

In 2016, Virginia lawmakers made a short but significant revision to the required academic standards that all districts must teach, by adding these topics to a long list: “computer science and ...

If you’re going to build your own computer, it probably wouldn’t do you well to exactly emulate the computer you’re looking at right now. The modern x86 and x64 chips that power your desktop or laptop ...

Wednesday, the MLCommons, the industry consortium that oversees a popular test of machine learning performance, MLPerf, released its latest benchmark test report, showing new adherents including ...

Forward-looking: After being beaten by AMD in introducing the first, truly 64-bit instruction set in the x86 CPU world, Intel is now trying to get ahead of its historical competitor by working on a ...