Andre Seznec, a star of branch prediction

After decades of dominance of X86 in the big core area, Arm cores from Arm, Apple, and now Qualcomm are making a big entrance to the market. As an alternative, it looks like SiFive, a leader in high-performance RISC-V cores is building a big core. It ought to be the highest performance Risc V core and a star engineer Andre Seznec has been hired as a Fellow to help out. Andre Seznec, a prominent figure with a branch prediction, has joined the company to help build the new core.