That is a generalized summary of the patent, not the claimed scope of protection, which reads, for example, "a system for processing information, the system comprising: a memory configured to hold data; at least two processors, each configured to perform operations, and to generate an access request when one of the operations involves access to the data, wherein each access request includes an indication of whether or not this occurrence of the access request is to be performed in a sequential order among other occurrences of the access request and, if so, an indication of a specified order; and a controller configured to receive the access requests from each of the processors, to determine a performance order for the access requests, and to provide the access requests to the memory in the performance order, wherein the performance order conforms to the specified order when the access requests indicate the specified order."
Posts by Bonzo_red
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Intel hit with $948.8 million VLSI infringement verdict
Rest in peace, Queen Elizabeth II – Britain's first high-tech monarch
CERN draws up shutdown plans to save energy
Re: Ukraine is a (large) straw that broke the camel's back
Strategic gas storage? You mean the two weeks' storage? Hardly strategic compared with Germany's 2 months' but then Germany doesn't have much North Sea gas. The UK's storage was only ever there to smooth out the supply/demand differences.
Intel to spend €17bn on chip mega-factory in Germany
Re: This fab is going to require electricity, I assume.
Electricity is one problem but a lack of water supplies is going to be an even bigger one. Elon's Tesla plant had problems because the environmentalists considered it would be extracting too much ground water and this fab is going to need a lot more than Tesla.
Germany advises citizens to uninstall Kaspersky antivirus
European Commission sticks 'in-depth' antitrust probe into Nvidia-Arm merger plan
Hellfire and damnation: Two French monks charged over 5G mast arson attack
International Space Station stabilizes after just-docked Russian module suddenly fires thrusters
Huge if true: If you show people articles saying that Firefox is faster than Chrome, they'll believe it
HP: That print-free-for-life deal we promised you? Well, now it's pay-per-month to continue using your printer ink
Elizabeth Holmes' plan to avoid her Theranos fraud trial worked out about as well as her useless blood-testing machines
Good news: Boffins have finally built room-temperature superconductors. Bad news: You'll need a laser, a diamond anvil, and a lot of pressure
Here's US Homeland Security collaring a suspected arsonist after asking Google for the IP addresses of folks who made a specific search
Cisco ordered to cough up $2bn – yes, two billion dollars – plus royalties after ripping off biz's cybersecurity patents
We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*
Stock market blizzard: Snowflake set for £33bn IPO as valuation bubble keeps on expanding
Woman dies after hospital is unable to treat her during crippling ransomware infection, cops launch probe
GCHQ agency 'strongly urges' Brit universities, colleges to protect themselves after spike in ransomware infections
Tech ambitions said to lie at heart of Britain’s bonkers crash-and-burn Brexit plan
Here's some words we never expected to write: Oracle said to offer $10bn cash, $10bn shares for TikTok US – plus profit share promise
Ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain loses US appeal bid against fraud convictions and 5-year prison sentence
Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both
What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible
Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up
Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft
Vodafone chief speaks out after 5G conspiracy nuts torch phone mast serving Nightingale Hospital in Brum
The Reg produces exhibit A1: A UK court IT system running Windows XP
Uncle Sam's nuke-stockpile-simulating souped-super El Capitan set to hit TWO exa-FLOPS, take crown as world's fastest machine in 2023
All that Samsung users found on UK website after weird Find my Mobile push notification was... other people's details
Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin
Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt
Post Office faces potential criminal probe over Fujitsu IT system's accounting failures
And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy
Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report
Alleged Nigerian social engineer wins free flight to the US for business email fraud and love scams
In tribute to Galaxy Note 7, BBC iPlayer support goes up in flames for some Samsung TVs

Samsung tablets affected?
I had downloaded a programme from iPlayer to watch on a flight the other day. Sitting in the plane all I got was a message saying that iPlayer was not available but back home with the wifi back on all was fine. Have the guys at the Beeb included a requirement for a connection to watch downloaded programmes?
Mayday in Moscow as devs will be Russian to Putin mandatory apps on phones, laptops, TVs
Bose customers beg for firmware ceasefire after headphones fall victim to another crap update
Criminal Damage
How about the Criminal Damage Act of 1971:
"A person who without lawful excuse destroys or damages any property belonging to another intending to destroy or damage any such property or being reckless as to whether any such property would be destroyed or damaged shall be guilty of an offence."