US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 27 for "Cache resizing based on processor workload" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,050, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cache resizing based on processor workload" was invented by Dilip Jha (Hyderabad, India) and William L. Walker (Ft. Collins, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor sets the size of a processor cache based on an identified workload executing at the processor. The cache size is set in response to the processor exiting a low-power mode. By setting the size of the cache based on the workload, the processor is able to tailor the size of the cache to the characteristics of a particular workload while also reducing, for at least some worklo...