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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2026
Filed:
Dec. 16, 2022
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Israel Diamand, Aderet, IL;
Julius Mandelblat, Haifa, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques and mechanisms for selectively configuring an integrated circuit (IC) chip to provide tag array functionality and/or cache array functionality. In an embodiment, an IC chip comprises a first array of memory cells, a second array of memory cells, and a cache controller. Based on whether the IC chip is coupled to another IC chip, selector circuitry of the IC chip configures one of multiple possible modes of the cache controller. A first mode of the multiple modes is to provide tag array functionality with the first array, and cache array functionality with the second memory cell array. A second mode of the multiple modes is to provide tag array functionality with the second memory cell array, and cache array functionality with a remote array of memory cells. In another embodiment, the cache controller is reconfigured to another mode based on a change to a power consumption characteristic.