The article indicates that academia has been writing about using them for branch prediction for a while and than Intel and AMD have been doing just that for a w

The article indicates that academia has been writing about using them for branch prediction for a while and than Intel and AMD have been doing just that for a while. They just don't talk about it much. > AMD's Zen architect Mike Clark confirmed to us his microarchitecture uses a hashed perceptron system in its branch prediction. "Maybe I should have called it a neural net," he added. Neural networks can be very complicated, but they can also be very simple. What little I know about perceptrons is that they are very simple. If you google "hashed perceptron", many of the papers that come up mention branch prediction in their titles.