US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Aug. 12 for "Scheduling multiple processing-in-memory (PIM) threads and non-PIM threads" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,659, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Scheduling multiple processing-in-memory (PIM) threads and non-PIM threads" was invented by Alexandru Dutu (Kirkland, Wash.) and Niti Madan (Bee Cave, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Scheduling requests of multiple processing-in-memory threads and requests of multiple non-processing-in-memory threads is described. In accordance with the described techniques, a memory controller receives a plurality of processing-in-memory threads and a plurality of non-processing-in-memory threads from a host. The memory controller schedules an order of e...