US Patent Issued to Intel on Feb. 10 for "Accelerator for sparse-dense matrix multiplication" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,672, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Accelerator for sparse-dense matrix multiplication" was invented by Srinivasan Narayanamoorthy (Hillsboro, Ore.), Nadathur Rajagopalan Satish (Santa Clara, Calif.), Alexey Suprun (Beaverton, Ore.) and Kenneth J. Janik (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments relate to an accelerator for sparse-dense matrix instructions. In one example, a processor to execute a sparse-dense matrix multiplication instruction, includes fetch circuitry to fetch the sparse-dense matrix multiplication instruction having fields to specify an opcode, a de...