US Patent Issued to Apple on March 24 for "Optics-based distributed unified memory system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,411, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Optics-based distributed unified memory system" was invented by Eran Tamari (Los Altos, Calif.) and Brian S. Leibowitz (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to computing systems that use silicon photonics. In some embodiments, a computing system includes a plurality of compute die packages that include processors configured to execute program instructions that operate on data stored in a distributed memory accessible via a unified memory architecture. The computing system further includes a plurality of memory die pack...