US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 20 for "Unified flexible cache" (California, Colorado, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,657, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Unified flexible cache" was invented by Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alan D. Smith (Austin, Texas), Chintan S. Patel (Austin, Texas) and William L Walker (Ft. Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed computer-implemented method includes partitioning a cache structure into a plurality of cache partitions designated by a plurality of cache types, forwarding a memory request to a cache partition corresponding to a target cache type of the memory request, and performing, using the cache partition, the mem...