US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 17 for "Memory circuit and method of operating same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,011, issued on March 17, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Memory circuit and method of operating same" was invented by Brian Crafton (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Xiaochen Peng (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Murat Kerem Akarvardar (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory circuit includes a compute in-memory (CIM) array. The CIM array includes a memory cell array configured to store a first set of data. The first set of data including a first set of weights or a second set of data. The first set of data being exponent portions of corresponding floating point numbers. The second set of da...