ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,103, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Instruction decode cluster offlining" was invented by Martin Licht (Round Rock, Texas) and Jonathan Combs (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a core and an instruction decoder communicatively coupled to the core to decode one or more instructions for execution by the core, where the instruction decoder includes two or more decode clusters in a parallel arrangement, and circuitry to offline a decode cluster of the two or more decode clusters. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed."
The pate...