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 ...

Try to investigate the differences between the x86 and ARM processor families (or x86 and the Apple M1), and you'll see the acronyms CISC and RISC. It's a common way to frame the discussion, but not a ...

Back in 1998, when I first began covering hardware at the newly launched Ars Technica, much of my writing focused on issues raised by the raging Mac vs. PC flame wars that took place in computing ...

Chris has reported for various tech and consumer goods outlets over the past decade, including Android Police and MakeUseOf since early 2022. Previously, he has contributed to outlets such as ...

The new MCUs will be built on a 90-nm flash process and achieve the world's top-class performance and code efficiency among CISC devices TOKYO, November 8, 2007 -- Renesas Technology Corp. today ...

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 ...

Ten years ago, I waded into the then-raging “Mac vs. PC” wars with a lengthy treatise on “RISC vs. CISC: the Post-RISC Era.” In the conclusion to that article, I declared the “RISC vs. CISC” debate ...

Embedded Processors Mean Variety THIS YEAR, MORE NEW PROCESSOR VARIANTS THAN EVER WILL BE released. But don't expect any really new processor architectures, except AMD's (www.amd.com) 64-bit ...

Part 1 of this feature dealt with the burgeoning growth in automotive electronics applications, which strains current electronics architectures, and how FPGAs offer control, processing, and cost ...