US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on April 22 for "Hybrid parallelized tagged geometric (TAGE) branch prediction" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,776, issued on April 22, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hybrid parallelized tagged geometric (TAGE) branch prediction" was invented by Anthony Jarvis (Boxborough, Mass.) and Thomas Clouqueur (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Hybrid parallelized tagged geometric (TAGE) branch prediction, including: selecting, based on a branch instruction, a first plurality of counts from at least one TAGE table; selecting, based on the branch instruction, a second plurality of counts from at least one non-TAGE branch prediction table; generating, based on the first plurality of counts and a second p...