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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 25, 2023
Filed:
May. 27, 2022
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 first processing cluster to perform parallel processing operations, the parallel processing operations including a ray tracing operation and a matrix multiply operation; and a second processing cluster coupled to the first processing cluster, wherein the first processing cluster includes a floating-point unit to perform floating point operations, the floating-point unit is configured to process an instruction using a bfloat16 (BF16) format with a multiplier to multiply second and third source operands while an accumulator adds a first source operand with output from the multiplier.