It&#x27;s more like x86 beat everything, which is also saying that externally CISC&#x2F;RISC didn&#x27;t matter so much. I like the section on RISC here: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;butler-lampson-1999&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;danluu.com&#x2F;butler-lampson-1999&#x2F;</a> Specifically part of the last paragraph: &quot;It’s possible to nitpick RISC being a no by saying that modern processors translate x86 ops into RISC micro-ops internally, but if you listened to talk at the time, people thought that having a external RISC ISA would be so much lower overhead that RISC would win, which has clearly not happened. Moreover, modern chips also do micro-op fusion in order to fuse operations into decidedly un-RISC-y operations.&quot;