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20090313489 | INDEPENDENT POWER CONTROL OF PROCESSING CORES - Independent power control of two or more processing cores. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention pertains to a technique to place at least one processing core in a power state without coordinating with the power state of one or more other processing cores. | 12-17-2009 |
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20110191607 | INDEPENDENT POWER CONTROL OF PROCESSING CORES - Independent power control of two or more processing cores. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention pertains to a technique to place at least one processing core in a power state without coordinating with the power state of one or more other processing cores. | 08-04-2011 |
20120226926 | INDEPENDENT POWER CONTROL OF PROCESSING CORES - Independent power control of two or more processing cores. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention pertains to a technique to place at least one processing core in a power state without coordinating with the power state of one or more other processing cores. | 09-06-2012 |
20120239946 | Independent Power Control of Processing Cores - Independent power control of two or more processing cores. More particularly, at least one embodiment of the invention pertains to a technique to place at least one processing core in a power state without coordinating with the power state of one or more other processing cores. | 09-20-2012 |
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20090089543 | INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT ACROSS A RANGE OF OPERATING CONDITIONS AND PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS - Methods and apparatus to improve integrated circuit (IC) performance across a range of operating conditions and/or physical constraints are described. In one embodiment, an operating parameter of one or more of processor cores may be adjusted in response to a change in the activity level of processor cores (e.g., the number of active processor cores) and/or a comparison of one or more operating conditions and one or more corresponding threshold values. Other embodiments are also described. | 04-02-2009 |
20100138683 | POWER CONTROL UNIT WITH DIGITALLY SUPPLIED SYSTEM PARAMETERS - Methods and apparatuses provide voltage regulation for a processor. Control or configuration parameters for a voltage regulator (VR) are provided digitally over a configuration bus to a VR controller. The parameters may be provided directly from a storage element, or via a processing element or processor core. Based in whole or in part on the parameters, the VR controller provides an output control signal to affect a power output from a power converter to the processing element. In one embodiment, the VR controller is integrated onto the same IC as the processing element. | 06-03-2010 |
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