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Meanings of complex instruction set computing in English

(Computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a large number of instructions hard coded into the CPU chip.

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      CISC, or complex-instruction set computing, is a way of designing processors that's very power hungry.
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      Usage of complex instruction set computing in English
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      CISC, or complex -instruction set computing, is a way of designing processors that's very power hungry.
      The Guardian