US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on June 24 for "Scaling out architecture for dram-based processing unit (DPU)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,101, issued on June 24, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Yongin-si, South Korea).

"Scaling out architecture for dram-based processing unit (DPU)" was invented by Dimin Niu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuangchen Li (Goleta, Calif.), Bob Brennan (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna T. Malladi (San Jose, Calif.) and Hongzhong Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor includes a plurality of memory units, each of the memory units including a plurality of memory cells, wherein each of the memory units is configurable to operate as memory, as a computation unit, or as a hybrid memory-computation unit."

The patent wa...