US Patent Issued to Rambus on Dec. 23 for "Memory controller partitioning for hybrid memory system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,904, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Rambus Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Memory controller partitioning for hybrid memory system" was invented by Frederick A. Ware (Los Altos, Calif.) and John Eric Linstadt (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute system includes an execution unit (e.g. of a CPU) with a memory controller providing access to a hybrid physical memory. The physical memory is "hybrid" in that it combines a cache of relatively fast, durable, and expensive memory (e.g. DRAM) with a larger amount of relatively slow, wear-sensitive, and inexpensive memory (e.g. flash). A hybrid controller component service...