One mechanism Intel uses to make its caches more effective is __________ , in which the hardware examines memory access patterns and attempts to fill the caches speculatively with data that is likely to be requested soon.
A) mapping
B) handling
C) interconnecting
D) prefetching

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The mechanism described in the sentence is prefetching, which involves the hardware predicting and filling the caches with data that is likely to be needed soon based on memory access patterns.

One Mechanism Intel Uses to Make Its Caches More Effective