A CPU of the RISC type employs a standardized, fixed instruction size, and permits only simplified memory access data width and addressing modes limited to register-to-register operations and register load/store operations. Byte manipulation instructions include the facility for doing in-register byte...http://www.google.es/patents/US6076158?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatente US6076158 - Branch prediction in high-performance processor
