Sentence examples for cisc from inspiring English sources

In a survey published last month by the Civic Institute for the Study of Crime (CISC), a government-funded think-tank, 75% of the respondents said they thought that crime increased in Mexico last year.

According to CISC, crime costs Mexico more than $5 billion a year.

RISC microprocessors have traditionally been used in workstations and other high-end computer systems, while CISC has dominated the less powerful personal computer (PC) spectrum.

RISC is the opposite of CISC (complex-instruction-set computing).

Most workstation microprocessors employ reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture, as opposed to the complex instruction set computing (CISC) used in most PCs.

In contrast, CISC chips have a large, complex resident instruction set.

A corollary of that feature is that applications software run by workstations must include more instructions and complexity than CISC-architecture applications.

Although Windows-based tablets have had some success in niche industries (medicine being a good example), for general use they're a non-starter because previously Windows would only run on CISC-style x86 chips.

This version unshackles Microsoft from CISC-based computing, giving OEMs the chance to create Windows-based tablets that are on a par with the iPad in terms of battery life, performance, and usability.

(That said, although Intel is pushing its new "Medfield" chip to Android OEMs. Medfield is an x86 design and therefore CISC-based. Whether it gets anywhere will be another story).

Despite the greater complexity of CISC, Intel has been able to use steady advances in chip-making techniques to squeeze ever greater numbers of transistors onto each generation of its chips and, thus, ever greater speed and performance.