US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on July 15 for "Configurable multiple-die graphics processing unit" (California, Colorado, Florida, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,628, issued on July 15, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Configurable multiple-die graphics processing unit" was invented by Mark Fowler (Boxborough, Mass.), Samuel Naffziger (Ft. Collins, Colo.), Michael Mantor (Orlando, Fla.) and Mark Leather (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A graphics processing unit (GPU) of a processing system is partitioned into multiple dies (referred to as GPU chiplets) that are configurable to collectively function and interface with an application as a single GPU in a first mode and as multiple GPUs in a second mode. By dividing the GPU into multiple GPU...