ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,399, issued on March 11, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Multi-block cache fetch techniques" was invented by Winnie W. Yeung (San Jose, Calif.) and Cheng Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to multi-block fetches for cache misses. In some embodiments, cache tag circuitry maintains a tag value that is shared by multiple cache blocks. In response to a miss, the cache may initiate a fetch request to a next level cache or memory. Aggregation circuitry may aggregate multiple fetch requests for cache blocks that share the tag value and fetch circuitry may initiate a singl...