Shanghai Cambricon Information Technology Co., Ltd

Xiaobin Chen

Tianshi Chen

Shaoli Liu

Zidong Du

Zai Wang

Tian Zhi

Daofu Liu

Yimin Zhuang

The present application provides an operation device and related products. The operation device is configured to execute operations of a network model, wherein the network model includes a neural network model and/or non-neural network model; the operation device comprises an operation unit, a controller unit and a storage unit, wherein the storage unit includes a data input unit, a storage medium and a scalar data storage unit. The technical solution provided by this application has advantages of a fast calculation speed and energy-saving.

Sparse processing in neural network processors

The present disclosure provides a neural network processor and neural network computation method that deploy a memory and a cache to perform a neural network computation, where the memory may be configured to store data and instructions of the neural network computation, the cache may be connected to the memory via a memory bus, thereby, the actual compute ability of hardware may be fully utilized, the cost and power consumption overhead may be reduced, parallelism of the network may be fully utilized, and the efficiency of the neural network computation may be improved.

Neural network processor and neural network computation method

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Pudong New Area, China

Xiaobin Chen