US Patent Issued to Intel on Jan. 27 for "Tracker for individual branch misprediction cost" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,087, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Tracker for individual branch misprediction cost" was invented by Ahmad Yasin (Haifa, Israel) and Nofar Hasson (Kefar Truman, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a branch prediction unit to predict branches for an instruction decoder and circuitry coupled to the branch prediction unit, the circuitry to track a performance metric for an individual branch misprediction. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed."

The patent was filed on March 28, 2022, under Application No. 17/705,946.

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