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• n  (computer science) a kind of computer architecture that has a relatively small set of computer instructions that it can perform

• Public company based in Cambridge, England CEO: Warren East What it does: Licenses its risc microprocessors and system-on-a-chip designs for consumer goods as well as .
• Losers: Transmeta its strong on tech but doesnt have the economies of scale to take on Intel so may have to stop supplying chips to the PC sector; and Sun its risc .

• reduced instruction set computing
• reduced instruction set computer
• RISC

• complex_instruction_set_computing
• complex_instruction_set_computer
• CISC

News & Articles

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• Fujitsu Unveils New FM4 Family of 32-bit Microcontrollers Featuring Low Power, Maximum Performance for Industrial ...
  SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Fujitsu Semiconductor America today introduced its new FM4 family of 32-bit RISC microcontrollers based on the ARM ® Cortex™-M4 processor core. The MCUs ...
  June 11, 2013 - PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
• Online Tech's Three-Part Encryption Webinar Series Begins Tuesday
  Experts from Online Tech, Duo Security and RISC Management to Present on Various Aspects of Encryption on June 11, June 18 and June 25
  June 10, 2013 - Marketwire
• OpenVMS taken out back, single gunshot heard
  HP has announced the end of support for OpenVMS, the ancient but trustworthy server operating system whose creator went on to build Windows NT. OpenVMS started out as VAX/VMS on Digital Equipment Corporation's VAX minicomputers, then later was ported to DEC's fast Alpha RISC chips âbefore the Compaq acquisition of Digital led to their untimely demise. HP ported the software to the Itanium ...
  June 10, 2013 - OSNews

Quotes

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• Steve Furber in Personal Computer World
  We've both delivered terrific products over the years. But HP has also made strategic decisions that compel its customers, developers and partners to change: ending development of your enterprise servers based on PA-RISC, and relegating your... Scott McNealy http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McNealy&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHlx3QTUElfwWDWoruY9RT5_qfoBw CRN http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml%3FarticleId%3D181401743&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFVhVWoGpls2CWvTTGWG0ep8Z3qog Mar 1, 2006 84249 111948 risc Eighteen months later we found ourselves with a working, rather effective ARM [then standing for Acorn RISC Machine] chip. It was the 26th of April 1985," Furber said. "When we decided to make it public I had the strange experience of...