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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Andrew S. Cassidy, San Jose, CA (US);
Rathinakumar Appuswamy, San Jose, CA (US);
John V. Arthur, Mountain View, CA (US);
Pallab Datta, San Jose, CA (US);
Steve Esser, San Jose, CA (US);
Myron D. Flickner, San Jose, CA (US);
Jeffrey McKinstry, San Jose, CA (US);
Dharmendra S. Modha, San Jose, CA (US);
Jun Sawada, Austin, TX (US);
Brian Taba, Cupertino, CA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Neural inference chips are provided. A neural core of the neural inference chip comprises a vector-matrix multiplier; a vector processor; and an activation unit operatively coupled to the vector processor. The vector-matrix multiplier, vector processor, and/or activation unit is adapted to operate at variable precision.