US Patent Issued to MediaTek Singapore on June 10 for "Method and apparatus for performing a MAC operation in a memory array" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,591, issued on June 10, was assigned to MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and apparatus for performing a MAC operation in a memory array" was invented by Chetan Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.), Gajanan Sahebrao Jedhe (San Jose, Calif.), Cheng-Xin Xue (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Zijie Guo (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to devices and methods for performing MAC operations using a TCAM array as a compute-in-memory (CIM) device that can enable higher computational throughput, higher performance and lower energy consumption compared to computation using a processor ou...