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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 28, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2013
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ankush Varma, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Ian Steiner, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Avinash Ananthakrishnan, Portland, OR (US);
Krishnakanth Sistla, Beaverton, OR (US);
Chris Poirier, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Matthew Bace, North Andover, MA (US);
Eric Dehaemer, Shrewsbury, MA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
In an embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores each to independently execute instructions, and a power control unit coupled to the plurality of cores to control power consumption of the processor, where the power control unit includes a control logic to reduce a maximum operating frequency of the processor if a first number of forced performance state transitions occurs in a first time period or a second number of forced performance state transitions occurs in a second time period. Other embodiments are described and claimed.