I was just wanting to know if anyone can tell me if the new athlon mp and xp's are risc chips or if they went to cisc. I know the older AMD chips were all RISC, but not sure of the newer ones. When ...

Processor design over the last few decades has moved toward RISC processors that aim to implement a few simple operations very efficiently. For a while, though, the trend was toward ever-more-complex ...

As far back as the late 1980s, chip pundits have predicted the demise of x86. Intel’s CPU architecture was a dead end, they said, and the day was fast approaching when the chipmaker would reach the ...