Hybrid technology combines performance and efficiency cores. Thus, both performance and power saving rate increase.
AMD Patents Hybrid Design for Ryzen 8000 Series
Hybrid design, more big. Known as LITTLE. Based on ARM technology, this design is now called DynamIQ. Although this technology is quite common in mobile processors, it was not preferred in desktop processors. The main reason for this is that desktop processors are performance-oriented rather than power-saving. However, Intel will bring this technology to desktop processors with the Alder Lake series.
The hybrid design patent obtained by AMD is more about transferring tasks. The biggest engineering challenge facing hybrid design is task allocation. AMD, which received a new patent on what task different types of cores will take, wants to make the communication between large and small cores more effective.
Patent forwards incoming transactions to different cores according to certain criteria. Thus, user-initiated processes are shared between large and small cores.
CEO Lisa Su has previously stated that they are not considering hybrid design. However, AMD applied for this patent in 2019. This shows that the American manufacturer has been considering hybrid design for a long time.
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