US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on April 22 for "Selective speculative prefetch requests for a last-level cache" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,428, issued on April 22, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Selective speculative prefetch requests for a last-level cache" was invented by Tarun Nakra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Akhil Arunkumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Paul Moyer (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jay Fleischman (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to generating one or more speculative prefetch requests for a last-level cache, a processor determines prefetch analytics for the generated speculative prefetch requests and compares the determined prefetch analytics of the speculative prefetch requests to selection thresholds. ...