RISC won. Intel continues to ship with CISC style artifacts, but that is only because Intel has almost never removed a feature from its microprocessors. However, the actual processor implementation is designed with CPU microcode, which is a RISC architecture. Even when you think you are doing something "CISCy" in an Intel proc, it's translated to RISC behind the scene.
Yup, MIPS and SUN are a thriving companies and Intel shut down.
> However, the actual processor implementation is designed with CPU microcode, which is a RISC architecture. Even when you think you are doing something "CISCy" in an Intel proc, it's translated to RISC behind the scene.
Do you really think that RISC machines don't have microcode? (They also have multi-cycle instructions and the like.)
The claim was that RISC ISAs had inherent advantages that would cause CISC ISAs to be uncompetitive. That claiim was wrong.
