[bsoft16385]

Bonnell has a branch predictor: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/microarchitectures/bonnel...

In-order execution does not mean that there is no branch prediction, it just means that the number of instructions speculated is much smaller.

[justsomehnguy]

Yes, it would be quite strange not to add it at all, especially since it was available since Pentium days.

No, it is not comparable with a 'proper' CPUs because it was still gutted hard.

IMMSMV all that stuff consumes a lot of die space, so it makes sense to throw it out if the performance is enough.