ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,426, issued on Jan. 20, 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. The matrix multiply unit may include cells arranged in columns of the systolic array. Two chains of weight shift registers per column of the systolic array are in the matrix multiply unit. Each weight shift register is connected to only one chain and each cell is connected to only one ...