What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 vs. 2015 (2015)

I would like to suggest that the classical taxonomy of RISC/CISC dichotomy is basically non-existent nowadays -- namely because both sides have influenced each other. It is well known that CISC has taken a lot of inspirations from RISC designs (such as having a lot more registers in x64), and RISC designs also taken some inspirations from CISC (such as having SIMD/vectorization units). In other words, the line between RISC and CISC has been very fine lately. Also, at the…

The claim about RISC being a No is bizarre. RISC has definitely won, for 2 big reasons: 1. Intel redesigned their x86 processors to execute using a RISC model internally. AMD is using the same idea. A processor architecture is defined by its execution model (not it's external encoding). 2. ARM is more ubiquitous than Intel, and ARM is a RISC architecture. In fact, ARM may be the dominant processor architecture in the next 10 years. RISC is resoundingly a…