US Patent Issued to Arm on Oct. 27 for "Graphics processors" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,555, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Arm Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Graphics processors" was invented by Daren Croxford (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain) and Isidoros Sideris (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a graphics processor that comprises a plurality of processing cores and a cache that is operable to transfer data between the processing cores and a memory that the graphics processor has access to. Access logic is provided to control how memory accesses issued by the processing cores are distributed across the cache slices. The cache slice that is used for a memory access is dete...