Well, quite a lot. Branch prediction is tied into speculative execution, and so it wouldn't be too unreasonable to think that speculative execution mitigations may have an impact on branch prediction, ...

An interesting finding in fields like computer science is that much of what is advertised as new and innovative was actually pilfered from old research papers submitted to ACM and others. Which is not ...

AMD recently released its Ryzen 9000-series processors, which brought the company’s new Zen 5 CPU architecture to desktops for the first time. But we (and multiple other reviewers) had issues getting ...