[seanmcdirmid]

LLMs need memory bandwidth to stream lots of data through quickly, not so much caching. Well, this is basically the same way that a GPU uses memory.

[zozbot234]

OTOH, LLM inference tends to have very predictable memory access patterns. So well-placed prefetch instructions that can execute predictable memory fetches in parallel with expensive compute might help CPU performance quite a bit. I assume that this is done already as part of optimized numerical primitives such as GEMM, since that's where most of the gain would be.