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Zen 5’s 2-Ahead Branch Predictor Unit: How a 30 Year Old Idea Allows for New Tricks

When I recently interviewed Mike Clark, he told me, “…you’ll see the actual foundational lift play out in the future on Zen 6, even though it was really Zen 5 that set the table for that.” And at that same Zen 5 architecture event,  AMD’s Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster said, “Zen 5 is a ground-up redesign of the Zen architecture,” which has brought numerous and impactful changes to the design of the core. The most substantial of these changes may well be the brand-new 2-Ahead Branch P...

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