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From: minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why do RISCs use (*not* need) fewer transistors?
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.021854.7613@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Date: 15 Dec 90 02:18:54 GMT
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by rcpieter@svin02.info.win.tue.nl (Tiggr):
| 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.

  Wow, 500 transistors for the core. Must be one of those RidiculISC
extremists. :-)

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