US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on Dec. 2 for "High bandwidth gather cache" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,929, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"High bandwidth gather cache" was invented by Bryan Hornung (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums that provide increased bandwidth caches to process requests more efficiently for more than a single address at a time. This increased bandwidth allows for multiple cache operations to be performed in parallel. In some examples, to achieve this bandwidth increase, multiple copies of the hit logic are used in conjunction with dividing the cache into two or more segments with each ...