Much of this was due to RISC techno

Much of this was due to RISC technology, which produced far higher performance, at least on many of the more common measures of performance. RISC processors also tend to be less complex technically and therefore less expensive to produce than the CISC technology used by Intel, because the smaller instruction sets require fewer transistors and integrated circuits. The combination of potentially less expensive and more powerful processors forced Intel to rethink its microprocessor technology strategies.