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Date of Patent:
Nov. 09, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 17, 2020
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

K Paul Muller, Wappengers Falls, NY (US);

William V. Huott, Holmes, NY (US);

Eberhard Engler, Tuebingen, DE;

Christopher Raymond Conklin, Stone Ridge, NY (US);

Stephanie Lehrer, Poughkeepsie, NY (US);

Andrew A. Turner, Underhill, VT (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 11/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4812 (2013.01); G06F 11/3495 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for avoiding overvoltages of a processor chip. The method includes one or more processors identifying one or more processing units of a computing device. The method further includes determining respective activity levels of one or more processing elements of the one or more processing units of the computing device. The method further includes determining respective voltages of the one or more processing units of the computing device. The method further includes regulating the respective voltages of the one or more processing units of the computing device based at least in part on the respective activity levels of the one or more processing elements.


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