How prevalent is branch prediction on current CPUs?

Question

Due to the huge impact on performance, I never wonder if my current day desktop CPU has branch prediction. Of course it does. But how about the various ARM offerings? Does iPhon

Answer 1

Not so much for the ARM Cortex-A8 (though it does have some branch prediction), but I believe the Cortex-A9 is out-of-order super-scalar, with complex branch prediction.