Centaur Technology, Inc.

Akarsh Dolthatta Hebbar

Douglas Raye Reed

In one embodiment, a bounding box prefetch unit in a microprocessor, the bounding box prefetch unit comprising: storage comprising a plurality of active prefetcher state entries for storing state information for a corresponding plurality of access streams associated with load requests, and a corresponding plurality of prediction logic; and a prefetcher state cache comprising plural prefetcher state entries that do not match any of the active prefetcher state entries.

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Austin, TX, United States of America

Akarsh Dolthatta Hebbar