[Lexinom]

I think it's a pity that RISC has not taken off more. So much cleaner an architecture. Intel has instruction sizes ranging from 1 to (I believe) 7 bytes, versus RISC where every instruction is the same, and pipelining is possible with multiple copies of the same CPU on one die...

Of course, if it were "my" chip, the venerable 6502 series, that had become the dominant one (if Mensche's 1984 demo of the 32-bit version to Apple had gone more smoothly) I'd probably be more lenient about the inherent CISC messiness, but that's a matter of personal bias. At any rate... The San Francisco 86ers - love it!

[Betis70]

Don’t most smart phones use RISC based chips? ARM I think are RISC and they power a lot of smart phones.

[BuckeyeTexan]

I think it's a pity that RISC has not taken off more.

Hasn't taken off? IBM's POWER architecture pretty much rules the IT world.