Demystifying RISC Microprocessor Philosophy

Deep misconceptions between RISC and CISC processor still remain. Let us try to clarify.

UltraSPARC a famous RISC processor in the 1990s from Sun Microsystems

I write a lot about microprocessors where I talk briefly about RISC and CISC processors. It is a topic that naturally pops up now that RISC processors such as those based on Arm and RISC-V are on the rise while CISC processors based on the x86…