[Dr. Sivana]

RISC is alive and well, everyone except intel uses RISC and intel adopted a lot RISC features in it’s chips.

When a chip includes built-in conversion, it is hard to think of it as truly RISC in the same way that RISC had been presented some 20 years ago by the likes of Sun and IBM. Maybe some aspects of some part of the processor can be said to be inspired by RISC approaches, but I suspect that the instruction set is more complex than, say an old 80386 chip. I'm not a chip designer or assembly programmer, so I am prepared to be shown the error of my reasoning.

[jpsb]

You are correct. The intel chip this article talks about is not a RISC chip, it is still a complex instruction set chip (CISC). The main reason INTEL stuck with CISC is to maintain compatibility with older software depended x86 assembly. But Intel borrowed as much as it could from RISC and new instructions are RISC. Other chip makers not dependent on x86 assembly pretty much all went RISC since RISC is proven to be faster and more scalable.