DYNAMIC RECEIVER CHAIN ALLOCATION

A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a network node, a message configuring a group of component carriers (CCs). The method also includes allocating, to each CC of the group of CCs based on receiving the message configuring the group of CCs, one of a respective first number of receiver chains, from a group of receiver chains available at the UE, or a respective second number of receiver chains, from the group of receiver chains, to maximize a total number of receiver chains for decoding the group of CCs, collectively. The method further includes decoding each CC of the group of CCs based on the respective first number of receiver chains or the respective second number of receiver chains allocated to the CC.