I dunno about the internal workings of the AMD chips, but the modern Intel chips have a very RISC-like microcode that all the x86 instructions are broken down into. The silicon doesn't actually have paths for the x86 instructions, which makes the RISC vs CISC debate extremely poorly defined.
Post #49 by TylerEss
| Source Forum | 68kMLA |
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| Category | Hardware |
| Post Date | Sat, 21 Jun 2008 - 07:54 |
| Original URL | https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/quadra-650-nubus.13593/ |
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