US Patent Issued to Ampere Computing on May 26 for "Providing additional operations for a functional unit of a processor core" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,069, issued on May 26, was assigned to Ampere Computing LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing additional operations for a functional unit of a processor core" was invented by Benjamin Crawford Chaffin (Portland, Ore.), Jacob Daniel Morgan (Forest Grove, Ore.) and Christopher Palistrant (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate generally to the design of the functional units of a processor core, and more specifically, to adding logical operations of a first functional unit of a processor core to a second functional unit of the processor core. In an aspect, a processor core includes a first function...