Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070174746
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Roy Hodges (6 months ago)
With the advent of multi-core processors like the Intel Core 2 Duo and motherboards supporting a feature called automatic over clocking, such as Asus's BIOS automatic over clock which finds stable clock settings and voltage settings for multiple processors. This is also done with Ai Booster using multiple reboots. This patent really does not offer anything new especially when additionally considering the fact that the cores (considered separate processors) are operating in lock-step fashion already with respect to varying clock speeds and vCore values (Intel Speedstep). Must submit sources...Manuel Perez (7 months ago)
The wording of claim 1 is too ambiguous (varying, adjusting…) making the scope of claim 1 too broad and unclear. In my opinion, the wording of claim 8 is better, making the claim more specific and more clear and the scope is more or less the same.Matt Grady (8 months ago)
It is standard practice in integrated circuit test to 'find the Vdd' at which a component can operate at. These days, that discovered Vdd, or range of Vdds, is often hard coded into the device as a 'voltage ID'. Laser fuses have been used in the past for such personalization, electronic fuses are used most often at present. See any post 2005 (or even earlier) Intel databook for any of their Pentium-type processors, as just one of many examples.
I don't think that having the computer system (instead of integrated circuit test equipment) discover such ranges of Vdd operation makes it novel.PEER TO PATENT ACTIVITY
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