Are Intel and Motorola moving towards a MIPS/RISC model? [closed]

Posted by Nick Rosencrantz on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Nick Rosencrantz
Published on 2012-10-22T22:03:13Z Indexed on 2012/10/30 5:21 UTC
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Is it true what I read that Intel and Motorola are moving from CISC to a programming model more like RISC/MIPS? Why?

From the famous book "Computer Architecture" by Hennessay which usually is recommended around here:

Recent implementations of the x86 architecture actually translate x86 instruction into simple operation that look like MIPS instuctions....

Page 335. What does this mean specifically? Can you show me an example?

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