Across San Francisco Bay, David Patterson was working on similar ideas at the University of California Berkeley. He later helped Sun Microsystems turn his team’s work into its flagship SPARC line of chips.
Wednesday, Hennessy and Patterson were awarded the Turing Award, computing’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize for their work on RISC. The two didn’t invent RISC themselves. They and their teams built on existing research, but they popularized the ideas and helped prove they were feasible, and Patterson’s team coined the term RISC.
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