Advanced Micro Devices/ATI Technologies Assigned Patent

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD), Santa Clara, CA, and ATI Technologies, Inc. (acquired by AMD), Markham, Ontario, Canada, has been assigned a patent (10,761,736) developed by Osqueizadeh, Nima, Markham, Canada, and Blinzer, Paul, Bellevue, WA, for “method and apparatus for integration of non-volatile memory.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Described herein is a method and system for directly accessing and transferring data between a first memory architecture and a second memory architecture associated with a graphics processing unit (GPU) by treating the first memory architecture, the second memory architecture and system memory as a single physical memory, where the first memory architecture is a non-volatile memory (NVM) and the second memory architecture is a local memory. Upon accessing a virtual address (VA) range by a processor, the requested content is paged in from the single physical memory and is then redirected by a virtual storage driver to the second memory architecture or the system memory, depending on which of the GPU or CPU triggered the access request. The memory transfer occurs without awareness of the application and the operating system.”

The patent application was filed on August 6, 2018 (16/055,716).