ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,603, issued on June 3, was assigned to Macronix International Co. Ltd. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"High bandwidth non-volatile memory for AI inference system" was invented by Hsiang-Lan Lung (Ardsley, N.Y.) and I-Ting Kuo (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high bandwidth non-volatile memory (NVM) is described suitable for providing neural network weight data to an AI accelerator processing core or cores. An artificial intelligence (AI) inference memory device employing the high bandwidth NVM technology as described herein can comprise a logic layer die including channel logic implementing connections between a plurality of chan...