US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Oct. 7 for "Data-driven precision for memory access" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,887, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Data-driven precision for memory access" was invented by Shaizeen Dilawarhusen Aga (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nuwan S. Jayasena (Cupertino, Calif.) and Mohamed Assem Abd Elmohsen Ibrahim (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for data-driven precision memory access of cache block data are described. Computing system components are informed as to instances where access operations involve deducing a necessary precision of the data format and expressing the requested data in a lower-precision data format with minimal...