US Patent Issued to Groq on Oct. 20 for "Deterministic streaming processor architecture having functional units" (California, Minnesota, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,654, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Groq Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Deterministic streaming processor architecture having functional units" was invented by Jonathan Alexander Ross (Palo Alto, Calif.), Dennis Charles Abts (Eau Claire, Wis.), John Thompson (Minneapolis) and Gregory M. Thorson (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor having a functional slice architecture is divided into a plurality of functional units ("tiles") organized into a plurality of slices. Each slice is configured to perform specific functions within the processor, which may include memory slices (MEM) for storing operand data, and arit...