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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2009
Changkyu Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert Lin, Stanford, CA (US);
Christopher J. Hughes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anthony-trung D. Nguyen, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Yen-kuang Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Zeshan A. Chishti, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Bryan K. Casper, Portland, OR (US);
Changkyu Kim, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert Lin, Stanford, CA (US);
Christopher J. Hughes, Cupertino, CA (US);
Anthony-Trung D. Nguyen, Castro Valley, CA (US);
Yen-Kuang Chen, Cupertino, CA (US);
Zeshan A. Chishti, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Bryan K. Casper, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatuses and systems to decrease the energy consumption of a memory chip while increasing its effect bandwidth during the execution of any workload. Methods, apparatuses and systems may allow a memory chip utilize a plurality of virtual row buffers to respond to requests for data included in a memory array block. Methods, apparatuses and systems may further eliminate or reduce the cost associated with transferring unnecessary data from a memory array block to row buffers by altering the data transfer size between a memory array block and a row buffer.