A brief introduction can be found in this post here: https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_your_cpu/ https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/

A brief introduction can be found in this post here: https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_your_cpu/ https://chasethedevil.github.io/post/the_neural_network_in_y... It talks about “Dynamic Branch Prediction with Perceptrons” (Jimenez 2001) which sparked the whole thing. The AMD engineers read this paper (and probably many more!), put together a development program, and shipped it.