ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,469, issued on March 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Trace cache access prediction and read enable" was invented by Pruthivi Vuyyuru (Santa Clara, Calif.), Niket K. Choudhary (Santa Clara, Calif.), Muawya M. Al-Otoom (Lake Oswego, Ore.) and Ilhyun Kim (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to predicting when a fetch address will hit in a trace cache, e.g., to reduce power consumption when a hit is not predicted. In some embodiments, a processor caches instructions sequentially in a given cache line of instruction cache circuitry. The processor may identify traces of instructi...