US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for predicting branch instructions" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,021, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR CORP. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Method and system for predicting branch instructions" was invented by Chih-Hsien Chu (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yu-Ju Shih (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system for predicting branch instructions are provided. The method includes reading a branch target buffer that stores a plurality of reference program counter (PC) values and a plurality of prediction target addresses. The reference PC values include plurality of history PC values of a plurality of history instructions that are executed before the branch instructions, ...