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RISC-V (pronounced "risk-five") is a license-free, modular, extensible instruction set architecture (ISA).

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Not an expert, but what I understand is that x86 has microops, and each instruction is decomposed into microops by the microcode. These microops can then be executed many at the same time by the multiple "ALUs" (not strictly speaking ALUs).

Maybe someone else can correct me or expand a bit.