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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 27, 2022

Filed:

Dec. 06, 2019
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

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);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2006.01); G06F 15/80 (2006.01); G06F 17/16 (2006.01); G06N 3/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06N 3/063 (2013.01); G06F 15/8053 (2013.01); G06F 17/16 (2013.01); G06N 3/0481 (2013.01);
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.


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