US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 29 for "Dynamic memory power capping with criticality awareness" (Washington Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,620, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Dynamic memory power capping with criticality awareness" was invented by Yasuko Eckert (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reducing memory power consumption without substantial performance impact by selectively delaying non-critical memory requests are disclosed. A system management unit transfers an amount of power allocated from a memory subsystem to other component(s) responsive to detecting a first condition. In one embodiment, the first condition is detecting one or more processors having...