US Patent Issued to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES on Sept. 1 for "Die power management" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,473, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Die power management" was invented by Srilatha Manne (Seattle) and Rajagopalan Desikan (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes two or more core dies each including one or more processor cores and/or associated with one or more input/output dies. A hypervisor, firmware in a central processing unit (CPU), or software or firmware located outside of the CPU assigns virtual machines or threads to a first core die and disconnects power from a second core die with no active threads or cores, e.g., by adjusting one or more v...