ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,737, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Neural network compute tile" was invented by Olivier Temam (Antony, France), Ravi Narayanaswami (San Jose, Calif.), Harshit Khaitan (San Jose, Calif.) and Dong Hyuk Woo (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing unit is disclosed, comprising a first memory bank for storing input activations and a second memory bank for storing parameters used in performing computations. The computing unit includes at least one cell comprising at least one multiply accumulate ("MAC") operator that receives parameters from the second memory bank and performs ...