US Patent Issued to Apple on Nov. 18 for "Customizable chip for AI applications" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,352, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Customizable chip for AI applications" was invented by Saman Naderiparizi (Seattle), Mohammad Rastegari (Bothell, Wash.) and Sayyed Karen Khatamifard (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computing device includes an input sensor providing an input data; a programmable logic device (PLD) implementing a convolutional neural network (CNN), wherein: each compute block of the PLD corresponds to one of a multiple of convolutional layers of the CNN, each compute block of the PLD is placed in proximity to at least two memory blocks, a first one o...