| CPC G06F 12/0862 (2013.01) [G06F 2212/602 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |

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1. An integrated circuit comprising:
a prefetch engine comprising circuitry, wherein responsive to receipt of a user query that targets two or more data items, the circuitry is configured to:
retrieve, from a prefetch data storage, a first group of one or more data items of the two or more data items, identified as being stored in the prefetch data storage;
send the first group of data items to a data processing stage comprising processing circuitry, prior to sending remaining data items of the two or more data items;
retrieve, from a data storage different from the prefetch data storage, a second group of one or more data items of the two or more data items, identified as not being stored in the prefetch data storage; and
send the second group of data items to the data processing stage.
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