US Patent Issued to Intel on June 17 for "Delayed cache writeback instructions for improved data sharing in manycore processors" (Belgian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,305, issued on June 17, was assigned to Intel Corp..

"Delayed cache writeback instructions for improved data sharing in manycore processors" was invented by Wim Heirman (Gent Vov, Belgium), Stijn Eyerman (Evergem, Belgium) and Ibrahim Hur (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus relating to one or more delayed cache writeback instructions for improved data sharing in manycore processors are described. In an embodiment, a delayed cache writeback instruction causes a cache block in a modified state in a Level 1 (L1) cache of a first core of a plurality of cores of a multi-core processor to a Modified write b...