US Patent Issued to Advanced Micro Devices on Aug. 12 for "Providing data from portions of a memory to processors in memory (PIMs) in an electronic device" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,766, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Providing data from portions of a memory to processors in memory (PIMs) in an electronic device" was invented by Alexandru Dutu (Bellevue, Wash.), Vaibhav Ramakrishnan Ramachandran (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael W. Boyer (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A memory includes at least two portions of memory circuitry, a first processor in memory (PIM) functional block, and a second PIM functional block, each PIM functional block being associated with a respective different portion of the memory circuitry. In operation, the first PIM ...