ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,497, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Fused comparison add instructions" was invented by Steven Isaac Reeves (Truckee, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, system, and method for efficiently processing pairs of operations repeatedly used in applications. In various implementations, a computing system includes a parallel data processing circuit with multiple compute circuits. Each of the compute circuits includes multiple lanes of execution, each with a corresponding arithmetic logic unit (ALU). The ALU supports executing a single fused conditional ternary instructio...