hobbit on 25 May 2010
| famousringo said: You could certainly make an argument that a rigid commitment to x86 architecture has slowed research into more efficient/powerful RISC processors while chipmakers develop all kinds of voodoo to get more juice out of CISC chips. It all works out in the end, though, as ARM takes over the world through our pockets.  |
Well CISC has been the design basis for cpus since the beginning of computing. You really have to blame IBM for intel's x86 taking over; they really missed the PC market needs.
Of course you have to consider that RISC chips are better suited to designer needs like servers, mobile devices, and game consoles(although xenon and cell have an expanded the RISC instruction sets). So IBM and ARM have had it pretty good too.
