August 16, 2026

Moving past speculation: How deterministic CPUs deliver predictable AI performance

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For more than three decades, modern CPUs have relied on speculative execution to keep pipelines full. When it emerged in the 1990s, speculation was hailed as a breakthrough — just as pipelining and superscalar execution had been in earlier decades. E...