US Patent Issued to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR on July 28 for "NUMA multi-core processor switching between lock modes, operating method, and instructions therefor" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,908, issued on July 28, was assigned to SHANGHAI ZHAOXIN SEMICONDUCTOR Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"NUMA multi-core processor switching between lock modes, operating method, and instructions therefor" was invented by Yong Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An efficient multi-core processor is provided, with processor instructions and an operating method associated with lock competition of a shared computing resource. A lock-application instruction is provided. Accordingly, the different processes executed by the different central processing unit (CPU) cores stand in a queue for right-of-access to the shared computing resources. The ...