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Patent No.:

US 9037889 B1

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Date of Patent:
May. 19, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2012
Applicants:

Avinash N. Ananthakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Julien Fefe Sebot, Haifa, IL;

Jay D. Schwartz, Aloha, OR (US);

Stephen H. Gunther, Beaverton, OR (US);

Eric C. Samson, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Inventors:

Avinash N. Ananthakrishnan, Hillsboro, OR (US);

Julien Fefe Sebot, Haifa, IL;

Jay D. Schwartz, Aloha, OR (US);

Stephen H. Gunther, Beaverton, OR (US);

Eric C. Samson, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3293 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/324 (2013.01); G06F 1/3287 (2013.01);
Abstract

A processor is described that includes a plurality of execution cores. The processor also includes power management circuitry to dynamically determine a number of the execution cores that, when active, will cause the processor to operate in a substantially linear power consumption vs. frequency region of operation such that performance gain as a function of power consumption increase with the number of cores is higher as compared to any other number of active execution cores within an established power envelope.


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