ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,773, issued on June 24, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Selection of victim entry in a data structure" was invented by Yongmei Zhang (Saratoga, Calif.), Yedidya Hilewitz (Sharon, Mass.) and Yen-Cheng Liu (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, a processor may include an execution engine to execute a plurality of instructions, a memory to store a tagged data structure comprising a plurality of entries, and an eviction circuit. The eviction circuit may be to: generate a pseudo-random number responsive to an eviction request for the tagged data structure; in response to a determination that t...