ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,395, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Low latency matrix multiply unit" was invented by Andrew Everett Phelps (Middleton, Wis.) and Norman Paul Jouppi (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus for a matrix multiply unit implemented as a systolic array of cells are disclosed. Each cell of the matrix multiply includes: a weight matrix register configured to receive a weight input from either a transposed or a non-transposed weight shift register; a transposed weight shift register configured to receive a weight input from a horizontal direction to be stored ...