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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
Hah...neither really won. Your IA32 CISC code is being decoded into a lower level RISC-like instruction set on all modern x86 compatible CPU's. CISC and RISC are not really relavent terms anymore when discussing microprocessors, though, so it hardly matters.
-Scott
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True. RISC kept adding instructions, CISC shuffled its instructions into different levels.
x86-64 is still technically a CISC instruction set.
But RISC processors are still used in PS2, PS3 (Cell), ARM (Palm PDA, iPhone and a myriad of other embedded devices) and so on. But the PowerPC fell out of favour, and my company retired a DEC Alpha a few years ago.
I guess "won" or "lost" is a bit to final. Both systems evolved into different directions. The original XBox was an x86 processor, the XBox 360 is a RISC based processor (Xenon).