ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,832, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to XILINX INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Neural network architecture with high bandwidth memory (HBM)" was invented by Xianpei Zheng Jr. (Beijing), Zhongmin Chen (Beijing), Lingzhi Sui (Beijing), Pengbo Zheng (Beijing), Xiang Feng (Beijing), Chong Sun (Beijing), Yu Zhang (Beijing) and Enshan Yang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a high bandwidth memory (HBM) and a convolutional neural network (CNN) engine. The HBM includes a virtual bank portion and a system memory portion. The virtual bank portion is configured to store a feature map data and the system memory portion is confi...