ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,494, issued on April 1, was assigned to Kepler Computing Inc. (San Francisco).
"Multi-die mapping matrix multiplication" was invented by Amrita Mathuriya (Portland, Ore.), Rajeev Kumar Dokania (Beaverton, Ore.), Ananda Samajdar (Hillsboro, Ore.) and Sasikanth Manipatruni (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Matrix multiplication process is segregated between two separate dies-a memory die and a compute die to achieve low latency and high bandwidth artificial intelligence (AI) processor. The blocked matrix-multiplication scheme maps computations across multiple processor elements (PE) or matrix-multiplication units. The AI a...