US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 2 for "Compute unit sorting for reduced divergence" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,790, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Compute unit sorting for reduced divergence" was invented by David Ronald Oldcorn (Milton Keynes, Great Britain) and Skyler Jonathon Saleh (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for reducing divergence of control flow in a single-instruction-multiple-data processor. The method includes, at a point of divergent control flow, identifying control flow targets for different execution items, sorting the execution items based on the control flow targets, reorganizing the execution items based on the sorting,...