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Meanings of reduced instruction set in English

A type of Instruction Set Architecture which requires multiple simple instructions to encode an operation which a CISC ISA might encode as one complex instruction.

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In 2010, a group of professors at Berkeley created their own RISC instruction set to use in class.
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Usage of reduced instruction set in English
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Intel builds chips on the x86 architecture, while Arm chips are based on RISC ( reduced instruction set computer).
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RISC, which is short for " reduced instruction set computing," is the concept of using streamlined, minimal vocabularies in chip design.
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