US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Jan. 27 for "Decomposing matrices for processing at a processor-in-memory" (Washington, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,246, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Decomposing matrices for processing at a processor-in-memory" was invented by Michael W. Boyer (Redmond, Wash.), Ashish Gondimalla (Lafayette, Ind.) and Bradford M. Beckmann (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing unit decomposes a matrix for partial processing at a processor-in-memory (PIM) device. The processing unit receives a matrix to be used as an operand in an arithmetic operation (e.g., a matrix multiplication operation). In response, the processing unit decomposes the matrix into two component matrices: a sparse c...