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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Shubra Marwaha, Folsom, CA (US);
Ashutosh Garg, Folsom, CA (US);
Supratim Pal, Bangalore, IN;
Jorge Parra, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Chandra Gurram, Folsom, CA (US);
Varghese George, Folsom, CA (US);
Darin Starkey, Roseville, CA (US);
Guei-Yuan Lueh, San Jose, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Described herein is a graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) multiprocessor comprising an instruction cache, a shared memory coupled with the instruction cache, and circuitry coupled with the shared memory and the instruction cache, the circuitry including multiple texture units, a first core including hardware to accelerate matrix operations, and a second core configured to receive an instruction having multiple operands in a bfloat16 (BF16) number format, wherein the multiple operands include a first source operand, a second source operand, and a third source operand, and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent and process the instruction, wherein to process the instruction includes to multiply the second source operand by the third source operand and add a first source operand to a result of the multiply.