US Patent Issued to Intel on July 22 for "Instructions to convert from FP16 to BF8" (Israeli, American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,045, issued on July 22, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Instructions to convert from FP16 to BF8" was invented by Alexander Heinecke (San Jose, Calif.), Naveen Mellempudi (Bangalore, India), Robert Valentine (Kiryat Tivon, Israel), Mark Charney (Lexington, Mass.), Christopher Hughes (Santa Clara, Calif.), Evangelos Georganas (San Mateo, Calif.), Zeev Sperber (Zichron Yackov, Israel), Amit Gradstein (Binyamina, Israel) and Simon Rubanovich (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for converting FP16 data elements to BF8 data elements using a single instruction are described. An exemplary apparatus i...