US Patent Issued to ATI Technologies, Advanced Micro Devices on April 8 for "Memory organization for multi-mode support" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,597, issued on April 8, was assigned to ATI Technologies ULC (Markham, Canada) and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Memory organization for multi-mode support" was invented by Xuan Chen (Richmond Hill, Canada), Ross V. La Fetra (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Michael John Litt (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory package includes first, second, third, and fourth channels arranged consecutively in a clockwise direction on the memory package, each of the first, second, third, and fourth channels having access circuitry and memory arrays. In a first mode, the first channel controls access to the memory arrays in t...