US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on May 13 for "Dual vector arithmetic logic unit" (Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,413, issued on May 13, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dual vector arithmetic logic unit" was invented by Bin He (Orlando, Fla.), Brian Emberling (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mark Leather (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system executes wavefronts at multiple arithmetic logic unit (ALU) pipelines of a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit in a single execution cycle. The ALU pipelines each include a number of ALUs that execute instructions on wavefront operands that are collected from vector general process register (VGPR) banks at...