US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 30 for "Instruction fetch using a sequential prediction circuit" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,134, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Instruction fetch using a sequential prediction circuit" was invented by Pruthivi Vuyyuru (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ian D. Kountanis (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a sequential fetch circuit configured to provide a given sequential fetch address for use in a fetch request, and a sequential prediction circuit configured to store, for one or more sequential fetch addresses, respective sets of sequential fetch parameters for use in subsequent fetch requests. The apparatus further includes a fetch control circuit configur...