US Patent Issued to Intel on March 3 for "Write combine buffer (WCB) for deep neural network (DNN) accelerator" (Irish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,570, issued on March 3, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Write combine buffer (WCB) for deep neural network (DNN) accelerator" was invented by Martin-Thomas Grymel (Leixlip, Ireland), David Thomas Bernard (Kilcullen, Ireland), Martin Power (Dublin), Niall Hanrahan (Galway, Ireland) and Kevin Brady (Newry, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute tile includes a WCB that receives a workload of writing an output tensor of a convolution into a local memory of the compute tile. The local memory may be a SRAM. The WCB receives write transactions. A write transaction includes a data block, which is a part o...