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Here is a new AMD patent list, featuring some of the latest advances developed by AMD in architecture, graphics, packages and more.

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Patent: Multiple Application Cooperative Frame-based GPU Scheduling - AMD

RDNA2...

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200250787.pdf

Patent: Block Level Rate Control - AMD

Efficient bitrate control of video compression for VR

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200252611.pdf

Patent: Architecture For Deep Q Learning - AMD

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200134445.pdf

Patent: On die voltage regulation with distributed switches - AMD

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20180374853.pdf

Patent: Early virtualization context switch for virtualized accelerated processing device - AMD

"A technique for efficient time-division of resources in a virtualized GPUs"

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20190004839.pdf

Patent: Routing Flits in a Network-on-Chip Based on Operating States of Routers - AMD

An enhanced dynamic uncore DVFS system is coming...

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200153757.pdf

Patent: Dynamic Precision Scaling At Epoch Granularity In Neural Networks - AMD

"A method to enhance perf and perf-per-watt of DNNs by determining error values of samples within an input volume that is provided to the DNN during an epoch."

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200151573.pdf

Patent: Using Multiple Functional Blocks For Training Neural Networks - AMD

"A system that performs training operations for a neural network using analog circuit element functional block (eg. phase-change elements, memristors...)"

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200151572.pdf

Patent: Control flow guided lock address prefetch and filtering - AMD

A method for prefetching target data for a lock-prefixed operations...

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200151100.pdf

Patent: Adaptive batch reuse on deep memories - AMD

Improving system performance by conducting reuse of mini-batches and reducing CPU-to-GPU communication.

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200151510.pdf

Patent: Reducing chiplet wakeup latency - AMD

A long-awaited wakeup latency solution patent for Zen3...

More details: freepatentsonline.com/10656696.pdf

Patent: Integrated heat spreader with configurable heat fins - AMD

Configurable IHS for liquid cooling...

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200161215.pdf

Patent: Secure Coprocessor Assisted Hardware Debugging - AMD

Methods for performing debug operations via a secure coprocessor which implements the page table walk without incurring multiple round-trip communication delays...

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200158778.pdf

Patent: Family of lossy sparse load SIMD instructions - AMD

"This family of instructions optimizes processor performance for dynamic sparsity that is encountered during DNN training and inference."

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200159529.pdf

Patent: Flexibly deriving intended thread data exchange patterns - AMD

"Techniques to improve intra-wavefront data exchange by determining what pattern of data exchange is represented before matching with HW-accelerated exchange patterns."

More details: freepatentsonline.com/10664285.pdf

Patent: Cache replacement based on translation lookaside buffer evictions - AMD

"Techniques for adjusting a cache replacement priority based on evictions of entries mapping virtual-to-physical address translations from a TLB."

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200242049.pdf

Patent: Using predictions of outcomes of cache memory access requests for controlling whether a request generator sends memory access requests to a memory in parallel with cache memory access requests - AMD

More details: freepatentsonline.com/10719441.pdf

Patent: Image generation based on brain activity monitoring - AMD

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200167999.pdf

Patent: Multi-tiered low power states - AMD

More details: freepatentsonline.com/20200166985.pdf