US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI Technologies on April 8 for "Off-chip memory shared by multiple processing nodes" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,627, issued on April 8, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Off-chip memory shared by multiple processing nodes" was invented by Michael John Austin (Austin, Texas) and Dmitri Tikhostoup (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for efficiently managing performance among multiple integrated circuits in separate semiconductor chips. In various implementations, a computing system includes at least a first processing node and a second processing node. While processing tasks, the first processing node accesses a first memory and the s...