ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,658, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Special purpose neural network training chip" was invented by Thomas Norrie (Mountain View, Calif.), Olivier Temam (Antony, France), Andrew Everett Phelps (Middleton, Wis.) and Norman Paul Jouppi (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus including a special purpose hardware chip for training neural networks are described. The special-purpose hardware chip may include a scalar processor configured to control computational operation of the special-purpose hardware chip. The chip may also include a vector processor config...