Hey! Are you on your phone right now? 🤨📲 If so, you’re likely enjoying the benefits of a chip design that changed everything, and it was born at UC Berkeley. In 1980, Professor David Patterson had the idea to keep it simple. This led to faster, energy-efficient microprocessors that power billions of smartphones and tablets on the market today. He coined the term reduced instruction set computer, or RISC, to describe this new approach. By the mid-1990s, RISC microprocessors were dominant throug