US Patent Issued to Intel on April 21 for "Specialized fixed function hardware for efficient convolution" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,600, issued on April 21, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Specialized fixed function hardware for efficient convolution" was invented by Rajkishore Barik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall (Chandler, Ariz.), Xiaoming Chen (Shanghai), Dhawal Srivastava (Phoenix), Anbang Yao (Beijing), Kevin Nealis (San Jose, Calif.), Eriko Nurvitadhi (Portland, Ore.), Sara S. Baghsorkhi (San Jose, Calif.), Balaji Vembu (Folsom, Calif.), Tatiana Shpeisman (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Ping T. Tang (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising an instruction cache to s...