US Patent Issued to Apple on July 22 for "Chained neural engine write-back architecture" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,381, issued on July 22, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Chained neural engine write-back architecture" was invented by Ponan Kuo (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hsiao-Chen Chang (Los Altos, Calif.) and Ji Liang Song (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a neural processor circuit that includes a first number of neural engine circuits, a second number of channels and a data processor circuit. The first number of neural engine circuits are pipelined into the second number of chains smaller than the first number. Each of the chains is configured to generate output data of a first size. Each of the...