US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Integrated circuit chip to selectively provide tag array functionality or cache array functionality" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,717, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Integrated circuit chip to selectively provide tag array functionality or cache array functionality" was invented by Israel Diamand (Aderet, Israel) and Julius Mandelblat (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and mechanisms for selectively configuring an integrated circuit (IC) chip to provide tag array functionality and/or cache array functionality. In an embodiment, an IC chip comprises a first array of memory cells, a second array of memory cells, and a cache controller. Based on whether the IC chip is coupled to another IC chip, selecto...