US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on May 27 for "System performance management using prioritized compute units" (Oregon, Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,179, issued on May 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"System performance management using prioritized compute units" was invented by Zhe Wang (Hillsboro, Ore.), Sooraj Puthoor (Austin, Texas) and Bradford M. Beckmann (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems for managing performance of a processor having multiple compute units. An effective number of the multiple compute units may be determined to designate as having priority. On a condition that the effective number is nonzero, the effective number of the multiple compute units may each be designated as a prior...