Question

Which of the following is a CISC processor?
(a) Intel P6
(b) AMD K6
(c) Pentium III
(d) Pentium IV

Answer 1

Answer:

(c) Pentium III

Explanation:

As per the question,

CISC is the abbreviated form of 'Complex Instruction Set Computing'. It is a kind of a microprocessor design for the CPUs.

By the action of just a single command a lot of tasks can be performed by the computer altogether as it can perform so many operations of the low level and is capable of multi-operation step processing.

The main motive of this approach is just to increase the speed of the computer.

Pentium III is one of the type of CISC processor.

Hence, the correct option is (c).