ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,130, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to GRAPHCORE Ltd. (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Floating point norm instruction" was invented by Alan Alexander (Wotton-Under-Edge, Great Britain) and Mrudula Gore (Bath, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware module is provided in an execution unit and is responsive to execution of multiple instances of a new type of instruction to perform a plurality of reductions in parallel. The hardware module comprises: a first accumulator storing first state associated with a first of the reductions; and a second accumulator storing second state associated with a second of the reductions. Up...