William Faulker：「过去永远不会死，它甚至还没有过去。」 CISC 和 RISC 是 David Patterson 和 David Ditzel 在 1981 年正式提出的。四十年过去了，二者的发展有哪些融合与变迁？IT 新闻界资深人士 Joel Hruska 撰长文对该领域的发展史及其将面临的挑战做了详细阐述，以下是 ...

CISC(复杂指令集计算机)和RISC(精简指令集计算机)是当前CPU的两种架构。它们的区别在于不同的CPU设计理念和方法。早期的CPU全部是CISC架构，它的设计目的是 CISC要用最少的机器语言指令来完成所需的计算任务。 RISC和CISC是设计制造微处理器的两种典型技术，虽然 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Renesas Electronics has increased the performance of its RX processor core, with a 4.0 Coremark MHz or 2.0 DMIPS/MHz RXv2 core. The CISC microcontroller now has the DSP performance to execute complex ...

The processor we will be considering in this tutorial is the MIPS processor. The MIPS processor, designed in 1984 by researchers at Stanford University, is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computer) ...

Choices should make your life easier, but that's not necessarily the case when it comes to selecting server architectures. In fact, the mists surrounding the available options can lead to a ...

We live in a day and age where electronic devices are an integral part of our daily routine. What’s inside them that gives them the power to do so many amazing things? On today’s episode of Pocketnow ...