US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Dec. 16 for "Efficient rank switching in multi-rank memory controller" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,884, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient rank switching in multi-rank memory controller" was invented by Guanhao Shen (Austin, Texas) and Ravindra Nath Bhargava (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes a memory accessing agent for generating first memory access requests, a first memory system, and a first memory controller. The first memory system includes a first three-dimensional memory stack comprising a first plurality of stacked memory dice, wherein each memory die of the first three-dimensional memory stack includes a different l...