Abstract: Embodiments for dynamically mitigating speculation vulnerabilities are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes decode circuitry and branch circuitry coupled to the decode circuitry. The decode circuitry is to decode a branch hardening instruction to mitigate vulnerability to a speculative execution attack. The branch circuitry is to be hardened in response to the branch hardening instruction.

Abstract: Embodiments for dynamically mitigating speculation vulnerabilities are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes decode circuitry and load circuitry coupled to the decode circuitry. The decode circuitry is to decode a load hardening instruction to mitigate vulnerability to a speculative execution attack. The load circuitry is to be hardened in response to the load hardening instruction.

Abstract: Embodiments for dynamically mitigating speculation vulnerabilities are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes decode circuitry and execution circuitry coupled to the decode circuitry. The decode circuitry is to decode a register hardening instruction to mitigate vulnerability to a speculative execution attack. The execution circuitry is to be hardened in response to the register hardening instruction.

Abstract: Embodiments for dynamically mitigating speculation vulnerabilities are disclosed. In an embodiment, an apparatus includes a decode circuitry and store circuitry coupled to the decode circuitry. The decode circuitry is to decode a store hardening instruction to mitigate vulnerability to a speculative execution attack. The store circuitry is to be hardened in response to the store hardening instruction.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a processor includes: a decode circuit to decode a load instruction that is to load an operand to a destination register, the decode circuit to generate at least one fencing micro-operation (?op) associated with the destination register; and a scheduler circuit coupled to the decode circuit. The scheduler circuit is to prevent speculative execution of one or more instructions that consume the operand in response to the at least one fencing ?op. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Abstract: Disclosed are an energy service system of a multi-machine production line and a control method thereof, the method includes reorganizing respective machines in the production line into three types of controllable entities: a drive system, an energy supply bus and an execution device, equipping them with a control center, and selecting a sub-drive system that is idle and is capable of completing the work stage with high energy efficiency to supply energy service for the corresponding execution device through the energy supply bus. Further disclosed is a design method of a multi-machine shared drive system of a production line, which increases the number of basic flow units of each drive unit to a maximum value one by one, and coordinates action time to form a variety of scheduling schemes, and selects a configuration scheme whose total time and total energy consumption are less as the shared drive system.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for non-speculative resource deallocation.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for performing a quantum rotation operation. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a decoder to decode a plurality of instructions; execution circuitry to execute a first instruction or first set of the instructions to generate a floating point (FP) value and to store the FP value in a first register; the execution circuitry to execute a second instruction or second set of the one or more of the instructions to read the FP value from the first register and compress the FP value to generate a compressed FP value having a precision selected for performing quantum rotation operations; and quantum interface circuitry to process the compressed FP value to cause a quantum rotation to be performed on one or more qubits of a quantum processor.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for specifying quantum operation parallelism. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: instruction fetch circuitry to fetch a plurality of quantum instructions from a memory or a cache; slice-based instruction processing circuitry to identify quantum circuit slices comprising sets of one or more of the plurality of quantum instructions; and one or more instruction decoders to decode the quantum instructions to generate quantum microoperations; and quantum execution circuitry to execute sets of the quantum microoperations in parallel based on the quantum circuit slices.

Abstract: Parallel streaming apparatus and method for parallel quantum computations.

Abstract: A processor includes a front end including circuitry to decode a first instruction to set a performance register for an execution unit and a second instruction, and an allocator including circuitry to assign the second instruction to the execution unit to execute the second instruction. The execution unit includes circuitry to select between a normal computation and an accelerated computation based on a mode field of the performance register, perform the selected computation, and select between a normal result associated with the normal computation and an accelerated result associated with the accelerated computation based on the mode field.

Abstract: A method is provided that protects electronic Identity information based on key derived operation. The method includes using an electronic Identity server to send an application derived identifier of the application and user electronic Identity code to a host security module that randomly generates an application master key, encrypts the application derived identifier with the application master key, and gets an application encryption key. The host security module encrypts the user electronic Identity code with the application encryption key, and gets an encryption document. The electronic Identity server codes the encryption document and an application identity code, and gets an application electronic Identity code. The electronic Identity server uses the application electronic Identity code as the user identifier.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to the technical field of CT detection, and in particular to a CT inspection system and a CT imaging method. The CT inspection system provided by the present disclosure comprises a radioactive source device, a detection device, a rotation monitoring device and an imaging device, wherein the detection device obtains detection data at a frequency that is N times a beam emitting frequency of the radioactive source device; the rotation monitoring device detects a rotation angle of the detection device and transmits a signal to the imaging device each time the detection device rotates by a preset angle; the imaging device determines a rotational position of the detection device each time the radioactive source device emits a beam according to the signal transmitted by the rotation monitoring device and the detection data of the detection device.

Abstract: Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for hardware load hardening are disclosed. In an embodiment, a processor includes safe logic, data forwarding hardware, and data fetching hardware. The safe logic is to determine whether a load is safe. The data forwarding hardware is to, in response to a determination that the load is safe, forward data requested by the load. The data fetching logic is to fetch the data requested by the load, regardless of the determination that the load is safe.

Abstract: Method, apparatus, and program means for a programmable event driven yield mechanism that may activate other threads. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes execution resources to execute a plurality of instructions and a monitor to detect a condition indicating a low level of progress. The monitor can disrupt processing of a program by transferring to a handler in response to detecting the condition indicating a low level of progress. In another embodiment, thread switch logic may be coupled to a plurality of event monitors which monitor events within the multithreading execution logic. The thread switch logic switches threads based at least partially on a programmable condition of one or more of the performance monitors.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dual-energy detection apparatus and method. The dual-energy detection apparatus includes an X-ray source configured to send a first X-ray beam to an object to be measured; a scintillation detector configured to work in an integration mode, and receive a second X-ray beam penetrating through the object to be measured to generate a first electrical signal; a Cherenkov detector configured to be located behind the scintillation detector, work in a counting mode, and receive a third X-ray beam penetrating through the scintillation detector to generate a second electrical signal; and a processor configured to output image, thickness and material information of the object to be measured according to the first electrical signal and the second electrical signal. The dual-energy detection method provided by the present disclosure may acquire an image of the object to be measured that is clearer and contains more information.

Abstract: A method is provided that protects electronic Identity information based on key derived operation. The method includes using an electronic Identity server to send an application derived identifier of the application and user electronic Identity code to a host security module that randomly generates an application master key, encrypts the application derived identifier with the application master key, and gets an application encryption key. The host security module encrypts the user electronic Identity code with the application encryption key, and gets an encryption document. The electronic Identity server codes the encryption document and an application identity code, and gets an application electronic Identity code. The electronic Identity server uses the application electronic Identity code as the user identifier.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an afterglow detection device and an afterglow detection method. The afterglow detection device comprises: an X-ray tube for emitting an X-ray beam; a first reading circuit for receiving a first detected signal from a to-be-detected detector to form and output a first measurement signal according to the first detected signal, the to-be-detected detector being connected to the first reading circuit and disposed on a beam-out side of the X-ray tube to receive radiation of the X-ray beam and outputting the first detected signal to the first reading circuit at the time of detection; a residual ray detector disposed on a beam-out side of the X-ray tube; a second reading circuit connected to the residual ray detector for receiving a second detected signal from the residual ray detector to form and output a second measurement signal according to the second detected signal.

Abstract: Embodiments of methods and apparatuses for restricted speculative execution are disclosed. In an embodiment, a processor includes configuration storage, an execution circuit, and a controller. The configuration storage is to store an indicator to enable a restricted speculative execution mode of operation of the processor, wherein the processor is to restrict speculative execution when operating in restricted speculative execution mode. The execution circuit is to perform speculative execution. The controller to restrict speculative execution by the execution circuit when the restricted speculative execution mode is enabled.

Abstract: Apparatus and method for replacing portions of a quantum circuit with multi-qubit gates. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a quantum circuit analyzer to evaluate an original quantum circuit specification including one or more sub-circuits of the original quantum circuit specification, the quantum circuit analyzer to generate results of the evaluation; a quantum circuit generator to generate a new quantum circuit specification based on the results of the evaluation generated by the quantum circuit analyzer, the quantum circuit generator to generate the new quantum circuit specification by, at least in part, replacing the one or more sub-circuits of the original quantum circuit specification with one or more multi-qubit gates.