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01 ·Computer Architecture·★ MEMBER·PAPER·10 min read CPU Pipelines and Branch Prediction — The Factory Inside One Clock Tick An instruction appears to finish in a single clock tick because the machine is an assembly line. From the five classic stages, through the three kinds of hazard, to branch prediction, speculative execution, and the day the leftovers of speculation turned into an information leak — Spectre.