G06F 9/3873
Variable length pipelines
Official title: {Variable length pipelines, e.g. elastic pipeline}
G06F9/3873 (Variable length pipelines) appears on 173 US grants and 148 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G06F- Granted patents
- 173
- Published applications
- 148
- Assignees
- 77
- Inventors
- 372
- Latest grant
- 7 Oct 2025
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| 2011 | 12 | 2 |
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| 2026 | 0 | 2 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- System and method for scheduling operations in a graphics pipeline7 Oct 2025US 12,436,767 B2Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Processor having adaptive pipeline with latency reduction logic that selectively executes instructions to reduce latency9 Sep 2025US 12,411,694 B2Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Coprocessors with bypass optimization, variable grid architecture, and fused vector operations24 Dec 2024US 12,174,785 B2Apple Inc.
- Coprocessors with bypass optimization, variable grid architecture, and fused vector operations5 Nov 2024US 12,135,681 B2Apple Inc.
- Vector processor supporting linear interpolation on multiple dimensions1 Oct 2024US 12,106,101 B2Intel Corporation
- Pipeline stage allocation30 Apr 2026US 2026/0119181 A1Arm Limited
- Processor having adaptive pipeline with latency reduction logic that selectively executes instructions to reduce latency15 Jan 2026US 2026/0017061 A1Texas Instruments Incorporated
- Data processing method and apparatus, chip, device, medium, and program product11 Sep 2025US 2025/0284538 A1Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
- Coprocessors with Bypass Optimization, Variable Grid Architecture, and Fused Vector Operations20 Mar 2025US 2025/0094381 A1Apple Inc.
- Inclusion of Dedicated Accelerators in Graph Nodes20 Jun 2024US 2024/0202003 A1Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Single-chip microcomputer using adjustable timing to fetch data from an external memory135US 6,125,431 AOki Electric Industry Co., Ltd. · 2000
- Dual instruction set processor having a pipeline with a pipestage functional unit that is relocatable in time and sequence order112US 5,542,059 AExponential Technology, Inc. · 1996
- Programmable processor with group floating point operations112US 6,643,765 B1MicroUnity Systems Engineering, Inc. · 2003
- Combined queue for invalidates and return data in multiprocessor system97US 5,333,296 ADigital Equipment Corporation · 1994
- Methods and apparatus to dynamically reconfigure the instruction pipeline of an indirect very long instruction word scalable processor92US 6,216,223 B1Billions of Operations Per Second, Inc. · 2001