Abstract: A method for forming an annealed thermoplastic tape is disclosed. The method includes supplying continuous fibers to an extrusion device, supplying a thermoplastic feedstock to the extrusion device, wherein the feedstock comprises a thermoplastic polymer, pre-heating, tensioning, spreading, and flattening the continuous fibers, extruding the continuous fibers and the feedstock within an impregnation die to form an extrudate in which the continuous fibers are embedded with a matrix of the thermoplastic polymer while under continuous tension and heat, and maintaining the continuous tension on the extrudate until cooled to a solid thermoplastic tape. The resulting annealed thermoplastic tape is formed of a plurality of unidirectional fibers, and a thermoplastic resin.

Abstract: A method and system are for reducing power consumption in a multi-way set-associative cache memory. During a first clock cycle, in response to an address, an associated set is identified in the cache memory. The address is compared to respective tag portions of blocks in the associated set, and a signal is output in response thereto. During a second clock cycle, in response to the signal indicating a match between one of the blocks and the address, a non-tag portion of the matching block in the associated set is read, while a non-matching block in the associated set is disabled.

Abstract: An information handling system processes a loop of instructions. In response to detecting processing of a particular instruction during a pass through the loop, the system initiates a fetch of an initial instruction that is programmed at a start of the loop, and stores an identification of a different instruction that is programmed between the initial instruction and the particular instruction. According to the stored identification, in response to detecting processing of the different instruction during an additional pass through the loop, the system initiates an additional fetch of the initial instruction.