Ultimately, however, they both won--CISC in software and RISC in hardware. The x86 architecture dominates the PC and server markets, but the guts of modern x86 chips are very RISC-like.

Bernard Cole, EETimes 8/5/2015 09:20 AM EDT FLAGSTAFF, Ariz — A recent study in the ACM Transactions on Computer Systems came to the conclusion that processor instruction set architectures, whether ...