US Patent Issued to The Regents of The University of Michigan on Aug. 26 for "DRAM-RRAM hybrid memory system for recommendation models" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,946, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to The Regents of The University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"DRAM-RRAM hybrid memory system for recommendation models" was invented by Heewoo Kim (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Haojie Ye (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Trevor Mudge (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ronald Dreslinski (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Nishil Talati (AnnArbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The performance of modern recommendation models is limited because of the memory bandwidth-hungry embedding layer reductions. A novel hybrid memory system is presented with DRAM and RRAM with PIM capability. The performance of traditional RRAM PIM is limited by the l...