ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,955, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Stall-driven multi-processing" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos Hills, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a microprocessor having an instruction execution unit and first and second sets of process execution resources, context information for a process next-to-be-executed by the instruction execution unit is loaded into a register file, translation lookaside buffer and first-level data cache of the first set of process execution resources during a first interval. During the first interval and concurrently with the loading of context information fo...