ARM vs RISC-V: What Are the Major Differences? - electropages.com  ## Metadata - Author: **electropages.com** - Full Title: ARM vs RISC-V: What Are the Major Differences? - Category: #articles - Tags: #computer-science #hardware - URL: https://www.electropages.com/blog/2021/03/arm-vs-risc-v ## Highlights - CISC allows a computer to do more in a single instruction cycle, while RISC allows for simpler programming. Generally speaking, RISC requires more clock cycles to complete the same instruction in CISC but can do so more efficiently (energy-wise), making them ideal for mobile applications. While x86/x64 remains the dominant architecture in the heavy processing market, ARM may face serious competition from a new processor architecture, RISC-V.