US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 13 for "Hint-based fine-grained dynamic voltage and frequency scaling in GPUs" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,062, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Hint-based fine-grained dynamic voltage and frequency scaling in GPUs" was invented by Shomit N. Das (Austin, Texas) and Joseph L. Greathouse (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing system dynamically scales at least one of voltage and frequency at a subset of a plurality of compute units of a graphics processing unit (GPU) based on characteristics of a kernel or workload to be executed at the subset. A system management unit for the processing system receives a compute unit mask, designating the subset of a plurality of com...