CISC-y Days are Here Again?
Submitted by bj on Wed, 2008-12-03 19:38.
Quote from the Wikipedia Entry on AMD Bulldozer (emphasis mine):
The Bulldozer cores will also implement a new iteration of Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) with 170 new instructions, named SSE5.
Note that the late-70s-era Z-80 only had 158 instructions total, and it was ridiculously non-RISCish...
