Cheaper, faster and simpler CPUs

EECS professor David Patterson develops the “reduced instruction set computer.”

Patterson directs a project that produces a simpler, cheaper, faster approach to the design of computer central processing units (CPUs). This “reduced instruction set computer” (RISC) makes CPUs more efficient. The invention ultimately garners Patterson and his co-creator, former Stanford president John Hannessey, the 2017 Turing Award, considered the Nobel prize of computing.

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