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Microsoft’s Windows and foreign database programs also sidelined as Beijing favours Chinese hardware and software

Among the 18 approved processors were chips from Huawei and state-backed group Phytium. Both are on Washington’s export blacklist. Chinese processor makers are using a mixture of chip architectures including Intel’s x86, Arm and homegrown ones, while operating systems are derived from open-source Linux software.

  • someguy3@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    If I can ask, if we go way back like 40 or 50 years ago, why did cisc get adopted over risc?

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
      12·
      8 months ago

      Cisc was never adopted. It all started out basic, then they gradually added more and more shit until you had a complex CPU.

      Without the concept of risc there wouldn’t be a cisc.

    • 7heo@lemmy.ml
      7·
      8 months ago

      Additionally to the other answer: the reason CISC came up to be was “less instructions”. Memory was a lot more expensive, and developers worked in assembly a lot more. So, less instructions made a lot of sense. Now, memory is cheap, and developers almost never write assembly unassisted.