A method and apparatus which includes a graphics accelerator, circuitry responsive to pixel texture coordinates to select texels and generate therefrom a texture value for any pixel the color of which is to be modified by a texture, a cache to hold texels for use by the circuitry to generate texture...http://www.google.com/patents/US8018467?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US8018467 - Texture caching arrangement for a computer graphics accelerator
