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I don't know about Fujitsu but Sun's SPARC designs were free from speculative execution until Oracle bought them.


Or did no one bother to check the older designs??


Oops, didn't read your comment closely enough, strike my above comment.

Followed the Wikipedia link to the 1995 Fujitsu/HAL out-of-order design (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_SPARC64) and it says it's superscalar, but then that the first version can execute as many as 4 instructions at once and out-of-order. And from the very first version had branch prediction, which equals speculative execution as far as I know.




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