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  1. (reduced instruction-set computer) in
  2. computing, a processor on a single silicon
  3. chip that is faster and more powerful than
  4. others in common use today. By reducing the
  5. range of operations the processor can carry
  6. out, the chips are able to optimize those
  7. operations to execute more quickly. Computers
  8. based on RISC chips became commercially
  9. available in the late 1980s but are less
  10. widespread than traditional processors.
  11.