Patent ID: 9342135
Filing Date: 2016-05-17
CPC Classification: G06F,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for thermally mitigating a multi-core processor, comprising: power collapsing sets of one or more busy processor cores of a multi-core processor on a rotating basis amongst cores of the multi-core processor without reducing clock speed of the multi-core processor in response to instances of a temperature of the multi-core processor exceeding a temperature threshold, including determining an elapsed time for the temperature of the multi-core processor to fall below the temperature threshold responsive to power collapsing each set of the one or more busy processor cores to determine a set of the one or more busy processor cores that, when power collapsed, produces a shortest elapsed time for the temperature of the multi-core processor to fall below the temperature threshold; and in response to the temperature of the multi-core processor exceeding the temperature threshold at a subsequent instance, power collapsing the set of the one or more busy processor cores that, when power collapsed, produces the shortest elapsed time for the temperature of the multi-core processor to fall below the temperature threshold.