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From: rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why do RISCs use (*not* need) fewer transistors?
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Date: 14 Dec 90 18:28:33 GMT
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hoelzle@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Urs Hoelzle) writes:

>So: why do RISC implementations currently use fewer transistors??

The ARM is a good example of a RISC with very few transistors (core is < .5k
transistors).  The reason is that its designers wanted it to be CHEAP.

Tiggr