US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 26 for "Wave throttling based on a parameter buffer" (Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,778, issued on May 26, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Wave throttling based on a parameter buffer" was invented by Christopher J. Brennan (Boxborough, Mass.) and Nishank Pathak (Orlando, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics pipeline includes a first shader that generates first wave groups, a shader processor input (SPI) that launches the first wave groups for execution by shaders, and a scan converter that generates second waves for execution on the shaders based on results of processing the first wave groups by the one or more shaders. The first wave groups are selectively throttled base...