[acranox]

There have been several HN links discussing this. Have you read these yet? I thought they did a pretty good job answering your questions.

  https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2

https://medium.com/swlh/what-does-risc-and-cisc-mean-in-2020...

[aarkay]

Thanks for the links. These articles do indeed answer a lot of my questions.