US Patent Issued to Apple on Oct. 7 for "Sharing branch predictor resource for instruction cache and trace cache predictions" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,766, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Sharing branch predictor resource for instruction cache and trace cache predictions" was invented by Muawya M. Al-Otoom (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Niket K. Choudhary (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Pruthivi Vuyyuru (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to branch prediction and trace caching. A processor may include both an instruction cache and a trace cache configured to store instructions. A branch predictor may include one or more prediction tables (e.g., tagged geometric length (TAGE) tables) configured to predict directions of co...