US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 17 for "Processor having multiple cores, shared core extension logic, and shared core extension utilization instructions" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,495, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Processor having multiple cores, shared core extension logic, and shared core extension utilization instructions" was invented by Eran Shifer (Tel Aviv, Israel), Mostafa Hagog (Kaukab, Israel) and Eliyahu Turiel (Shimshit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus of an aspect includes a plurality of cores and shared core extension logic coupled with each of the plurality of cores. The shared core extension logic has shared data processing logic that is shared by each of the plurality of cores. Instruction execution logic, for each of the cores, in r...