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Ling Cen0
Tessil Thomas0
Vishal Moondhra0
Date of Patent
October 6, 2009
Patent Application Number
11392335
Date Filed
March 29, 2006
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Patent abstract
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for speculatively providing a read request to a memory controller associated with a processor, determining coherency of the read request in parallel with obtaining data of the speculatively provided read request, and providing the data of the speculatively provided read request to the processor if the read request is coherent. In this way, data may be used by a processor with a reduced latency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
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