US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 21 for "Biased conditional instruction prediction" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,068, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Biased conditional instruction prediction" was invented by Deepankar Duggal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Pruthivi Vuyyuru (San Jose, Calif.) and Ian D Kountanis (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may include a conditional instruction prediction tracking circuit. During fetch of a conditional instruction from memory to an instruction cache of the processor, the conditional instruction prediction tracking circuit may predict whether the conditional instruction is biased. Responsive to a prediction that the conditional instruction is biased, the ...