..., RISC chips were the "in" thing and while both the Intel Pentium and Motorola 68060 were clever designs that essentially built some CISC decoding logic on top of a RISC-like core (which combined the best of both worlds), ...
Nope. Neither Pentium nor '060 have RISC cores. They're superscalar CISC designs. Intel started with RISC cores for x86 with the Pentium Pro after many competitors already did it.
