US Patent Issued to Intel on July 7 for "Concurrently fetching instructions for multiple decode clusters" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,294, issued on July 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Concurrently fetching instructions for multiple decode clusters" was invented by Mathew Lowes (Austin, Texas), Martin Licht (Round Rock, Texas) and Jonathan Combs (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises: a branch prediction circuit to predict whether a branch is to be taken; a fetch circuit, in a single fetch cycle, to send a first portion of a fetch region of instructions to a first decode cluster and send a second portion of the fetch region to the second decode cluster; the first decode cluster comprising a fir...