This chip maker mounted a challenge to Intel's Pentium range - so AMD bought it

AMD’s K6 range drew heavily from the Nx686 design and when launched in 1997 mounted a serious challenge to Intel's Pentium ...
EDN

CISC architecture promises revolution

Renesas Technology (San Jose, CA) is developing a next-generation CISC architecture for 16- and 32-bit microcontrollers that is said to provide revolutionary enhancementsa reduction in code size by 30 ...
Ars Technica

A history of ARM, part 2: Everything starts to come together

On a CISC architecture, ADD can add a constant to a value in a register, or it can add two registers together, or it can add the contents of a memory address to the contents of another memory address, ...
Ars Technica

A history of ARM, part 1: Building the first chip

RISC is a somewhat misleading term, as a RISC processor doesn't *have* to have fewer instructions in its ISA than a CISC system (Though RISC architectures do tend to try to do so). For example, the ...
CNET

AMD's SSE5 ends the old RISC vs. CISC debate

Prompted by the chipmaker's announcement of the SSE5 instruction-set extensions, Glaskowsky analyzes the ultimate outcome to this old controversy. Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer architect in ...