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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2012
Douglas D. Boom, Portland, OR (US);
Jordan J. Rodgers, Portland, OR (US);
Douglas D. Boom, Portland, OR (US);
Jordan J. Rodgers, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, the present invention includes a multicoreprocessor with a front end unit including a fetch unit to fetch instructions and a decode unit to decode the fetched instructions into decoded instructions, a first core coupled to the front end unit to independently execute at least some of the decoded instructions, and a second core coupled to the front end unit to independently execute at least some of the decoded instructions. The second core may have a second power consumption level greater than a power consumption level of the first core and also heterogeneous from the first core. The processor may further include an arbitration logic coupled to the first and second cores to enable the second core to begin execution responsive to a start processor instruction present in the front end unit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.