Patent 12112173 was granted and assigned to Intel on October, 2024 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a branch predictor to predict whether a conditional branch is taken for one or more instructions, the branch predictor including circuitry to identify a loop branch instruction in the one or more instructions, and provide a branch prediction for the loop branch instruction based on a context of the loop branch instruction. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.