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Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018

Filed:

Mar. 09, 2015
Applicant:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ashish Jain, Austin, TX (US);

Benjamin David Bates, Austin, TX (US);

Ali Akbar Merrikh, Austin, TX (US);

Samuel David Naffziger, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Steven Frederick Liepe, Fort Collins, CO (US);

Madhu Saravana Sibi Govindan, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/28 (2006.01); G01K 1/14 (2006.01); G01K 7/42 (2006.01); G01K 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/28 (2013.01); G01K 1/143 (2013.01); G01K 7/42 (2013.01); G01K 13/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method includes controlling a power limit of a computing system based on a determined skin temperature of at least one location on an outer surface of a device housing the computing system. A processor includes a processing unit and a power management controller to control a power limit of the processing unit based on a determined skin temperature of at least one location on an outer surface of a device housing the processor.


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