ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,106, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Next fetch predictor for trace cache" was invented by Muawya M. Al-Otoom (Lake Oswego, Ore.), Niket K. Choudhary (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Pruthivi Vuyyuru (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed techniques relate to next fetch predictor circuitry configured to operate in conjunction with a trace cache. The trace cache circuitry may identify and store traces of instructions based on predicted directions of one or more control transfer instructions. Trace next fetch predictor circuitry may predict a next fetch address based on a current fe...