ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,882, issued on July 8, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Next fetch prediction using history" was invented by Pruthivi Vuyyuru (Santa Clara, Calif.), Niket K. Choudhary (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ilhyun Kim (Portland, Ore.) and Ian D. Kountanis (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to predicting a next fetch address based on a current fetch address and history information. In some embodiments, tracking circuitry generates history information based on respective addresses corresponding to multiple control transfer instructions in a stream of executed instructions. Prediction ci...