US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices, ATI TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Dynamic memory reconfiguration" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,988, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.) and ATI TECHNOLOGIES ULC (Markham, Canada).

"Dynamic memory reconfiguration" was invented by Mark Fowler (Boxborough, Mass.), Anthony Asaro (Markham, Canada) and Vydhyanathan Kalyanasundharam (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system including a parallel processing unit selectively allocating pages of memory for interleaving across configurable subsets of channels based on a mode of allocation. In some embodiments, in a first mode, a page of memory is allocated to and interleaved across a plurality of channels, and ...