US Patent Issued to SK hynix on May 26 for "Multiplication and accumulation(MAC) operator and processing-in-memory (PIM) device including the mac operator" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,041, issued on May 26, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Multiplication and accumulation(MAC) operator and processing-in-memory (PIM) device including the mac operator" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multiplication-accumulation (MAC) includes a multiplication circuit, a pre-processing circuit, and an adder tree. The multiplication circuit performs a multiplication operation on a plurality of weight data and a plurality of vector data each having a floating-point format to output a plurality of multiplication data. The pre-processing circuit performs shifti...