US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on June 23 for "In-switch embedding bag pooling" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,105, issued on June 23, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"In-switch embedding bag pooling" was invented by Kishore Punniyamurthy (Austin, Texas), Khaled Hamidouche (Austin, Texas) and Brandon K. Potter (Troup, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for reducing the memory bandwidth of executing machine learning models. A computing system includes two or more processing nodes, each including at least one or more processors and a corresponding local memory. Switch circuitry communicates with at least the local memories and a system memory of the computing system. The switch includ...