US Patent Issued to SK hynix on Sept. 1 for "Processing-in-memory (PIM) device for performing a burst multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operation" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,644, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).

"Processing-in-memory (PIM) device for performing a burst multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operation" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing-in-memory (PIM) device includes a command decoder configured to repeatedly output internal multiplication and accumulation (MAC) operation control signals at a predetermined cycle in response to a MAC operation command received from outside the PIM device, a MAC unit configured to perform MAC operations in response to the internal MAC operation control ...