ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,554, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"BFLOAT16 fused multiply instructions" was invented by Alexander Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.), Menachem Adelman (Haifa, Israel), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Zeev Sperber (Zikhron Yaakov, Israel), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel), Mark Charney (Lexington, Mass.), Evangelos Georganas (San Mateo, Calif.), Dhiraj Kalamkar (Bangalore, India), Christopher Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Cristina Anderson (Hillsboro, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for performing BF16 FMA in response to an instruction are described. In some examples, an ...