ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,401, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Load instruction fusion" was invented by John D. Pape (Cedar Park, Texas), Skanda K. Srinivasa (Austin, Texas), Francesco Spadini (Sunset Valley, Texas) and Brian T. Mokrzycki (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that relate to executing fused instructions. A processor may include a decoder circuit and a load/store circuit. The decoder circuit may detect a load/store instruction to load a value from a memory and detect a non-load/store instruction that depends on the value to be loaded. The decoder circuit may fuse the load/stor...