US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 2 for "Dual-sparse neural processing unit with multi-dimensional routing of non-zero values" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,925, issued on June 2, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (South Korea).

"Dual-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, a control logic circuit, and a first processing element (PE). The first buffer receives a elements of a first matrix A of activation values. The second buffer receives b elements of a second matrix B of weight values. The con...