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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2021
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Subramaniam Maiyuran, Gold River, CA (US);
Mathew Nevin, Fair Oaks, CA (US);
Jorge Parra, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Ashutosh Garg, Folsom, CA (US);
Shubra Marwaha, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Shubh Shah, Folsom, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus to facilitate acceleration of matrix multiplication operations. The apparatus comprises a systolic array including matrix multiplication hardware to perform multiply-add operations on received matrix data comprising data from a plurality of input matrices and sparse matrix acceleration hardware to detect zero values in the matrix data and perform one or more optimizations on the matrix data to reduce multiply-add operations to be performed by the matrix multiplication hardware.