ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,075, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to SK hynix Inc. (Icheon-si, South Korea).
"Processing-in-memory (PIM) devices" was invented by Choung Ki Song (Yongin-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processing-in-memory (PIM) device includes a plurality of multiplication/accumulation (MAC) operators, a plurality of memory banks, and a plurality of data input/output (I/O) circuits. The plurality of MAC operators is configured to perform a MAC arithmetic operation using weight data of a weight matrix provided by the plurality of memory banks as input data to generate plural sets of MAC result data corresponding to elements of a...