US Patent Issued to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING on March 24 for "Reduced power consumption compute-in-memory system, method of operating same" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,175, issued on March 24, was assigned to TAIWAN SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING COMPANY LTD. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Reduced power consumption compute-in-memory system, method of operating same" was invented by Hidehiro Fujiwara (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Je-Min Hung (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Haruki Mori (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compute-in-memory (CIM) system includes a first leader-follower (L/F) flip-flop (FF), a suspender unit and a multiplication unit. The first L/F FF is configured to receive a data signal. The first L/F FF includes: a first leader FF configured to receive the data signal and a first follower FF configured...