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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?
Message-ID: <1641@svin02.info.win.tue.nl>
Date: 15 Dec 90 13:31:06 GMT
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minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:

|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. :-)

Oops!  k as in 100000.  Sounds weird, right?