RISC stands for \u201eReduced Instruction Set Computer\u201c and refers to a processor architecture that evolved from a fundamental reevaluation of processor design in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The focus was not simply on \u201efewer instructions,\u201c but on the question of which tasks should reasonably be executed in hardware and which could be better handled by compilers and software. The Reduced Instruction Set thus emerged as a counter-movement to a phase in which processors were being equipped with increasingly complex instruction sets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n