[jpsb]

RISC is alive and well, everyone except intel uses RISC and intel adopted a lot RISC features in it’s chips. The link I posted above points to IBMs new Power (RISC) processor.

[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.