ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,604, issued on March 24, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Efficient chip-to-chip communications" was invented by Anurag Chaudhary (San Jose, Calif.), Guan Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Harsh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, when a bridge of a chip has received an eviction request from a client of the chip, the bridge may transmit a read request that corresponds to the same cache line to another chip without waiting for an inter-chip completion response for the eviction request. When the read request is received, the bridge may determine whether the eviction request has alr...