US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, In. on April 21 for "Compacted memory transactions for local data shares" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,130, issued on April 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices, In. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compacted memory transactions for local data shares" was invented by Max Oberberger (Munich) and Matthaeus G. Chajdas (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To load compacted memory between a system memory and a local data share (LDS), a processing system includes an accelerator unit (AU) connected to a memory unit. The memory unit is configured to identify that compacted data in the system memory is to be written to elements of an LDS based on two or more compaction masks. The memory unit is configured to then determine sources within the m...