US Patent Issued to Intel on Oct. 27 for "Instruction prefetch based on thread dispatch commands" (California, Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,466, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Instruction prefetch based on thread dispatch commands" was invented by James Valerio (North Plains, Ore.), Vasanth Ranganathan (El Dorado Hills, Calif.), Joydeep Ray (Folsom, Calif.) and Pradeep Ramani (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing device is provided that includes a set of compute units to execute a workload, a cache coupled with the set of compute units, and circuitry coupled with the cache and the set of compute units. The circuitry is configured to, in response to a cache miss for the read from a first cache, broad...