US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Sept. 23 for "Low power memory state during non-idle processor state" (California, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,006, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Low power memory state during non-idle processor state" was invented by Benjamin Tsien (Santa Clara, Calif.), Chintan S. Patel (Austin, Texas) and Guhan Krishnan (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed device includes multiple processing component, and a cache. One of the processing components can be instructed to avoid allocating to the cache and another of the processing components can be allowed use the cache while reducing accessing a memory. The memory can then enter a low power state in response to an idle state...