US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on April 21 for "Weight-sparse neural processing unit with multi-dimensional routing of non-zero values" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,598, issued on April 21, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Weight-sparse neural processing unit with multi-dimensional routing of non-zero values" was invented by Jong Hoon Shin (San Jose, Calif.), Ali Shafiee Ardestani (San Jose, Calif.) and Joseph H. Hassoun (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A general matrix-matrix (GEMM) accelerator core includes first and second buffers, and a processing element (PE). The first buffer receives a elements of a matrix A of activation values. The second buffer receives b elements of a matrix B of weight values. The matrix B is preprocessed with a nonzero-v...