I think most here, including me, are not really knowledgeable enough to know exactly what the 148 is. We do know that the size of the memory and the ring oscillator concepts are being challenged. But I wonder how much that misses the point given the description in the most recent 10K.

<US 6,598,148. The ’148 patent describes on-chip oscillators (clocks) and covers multi-core and multi-processor implementations - important factors in today’s high-end microprocessor chips.>

Show me pior art for multi-core and multi-processor implementations. Obvious? Opty