US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Nov. 3 for "Vector memory loads return to cache" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,238, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Vector memory loads return to cache" was invented by Nicolai Haehnle (Polling, Germany) and Mark M. Leather (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently processing vector memory accesses on an integrated circuit. In various implementations, a computing system includes a parallel data processing circuit with multiple, replicated compute circuits. Each compute circuit includes a cache that stores temporary data. A control circuit that identifies an instruction of the in-fight wavefronts as a long-latenc...