The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, addressing the issue of whether certain factual and legal conclusions relating to obviousness were supported by substantial evidence, held that the ...

Cache coherency, a common technique for improving performance in chips, is becoming less useful as general-purpose processors are supplemented with, and sometimes supplanted by, highly specialized ...

Every core has its own cache. That's the performance win. It's also the consistency problem. This paper covers how hardware coherency solves it — and what it costs when you get it wrong.