• hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    RISC and CISC are two language which your CPU speaks, and which have different strengths and weaknesses. Reduced Instruction Set Computer vs. Complex Instruction Set Computer. It’s something like Chinese vs. English. Either have a word for everything but that means there is a lot of words to learn, or have a smaller amount of words but that means you need more words to describe what you mean.

    Highly technical; both been around for a while, and iirc usually CPUs use CISC, but RISC always retained it’s strengths, so scientists are always looking into the difference in application for both.

    Ngl I have no clue why this technology is so newsworthy rn but I know Western countries made a fuss about China activitely pushing the lesser used RISC architecture.

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      7 months ago

      Ngl I have no clue why this technology is so newsworthy rn

      It’s because of openness/royalties.
      RISC-V is an open standard instruction set architecture based on RISC principles. RISC itself is just a design type. ARM is based on RISC too, but it’s proprietary.

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        7 months ago

        ARM even means “Advanced RISC Machines”. They changed the official name to ARM but I don’t think they actually reinterpreted it.