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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 18, 2025
Filed:
May. 01, 2023
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hugues Labbe, Granite Bay, CA (US);
Darrel Palke, Portland, OR (US);
Sherine Abdelhak, Beaverton, OR (US);
Jill Boyce, Portland, OR (US);
Varghese George, Folsom, CA (US);
Scott Janus, Loomis, CA (US);
Adam Lake, Portland, OR (US);
Zhijun Lei, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Zhengmin Li, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Mike MacPherson, Portland, OR (US);
Carl Marshall, Portland, OR (US);
Selvakumar Panneer, Portland, OR (US);
Prasoonkumar Surti, Folsom, CA (US);
Karthik Veeramani, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Deepak Vembar, Portland, OR (US);
Vallabhajosyula Srinivasa Somayazulu, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a block of execution resources, a cache memory, a cache memory prefetcher, and circuitry including a programmable neural network unit, the programmable neural network unit comprising a network hardware block including circuitry to perform neural network operations and activation operations for a layer of a neural network, the programmable neural network unit addressable by cores within the block of graphics cores and the neural network hardware block configured to perform operations associated with a neural network configured to determine a prefetch pattern for the cache memory prefetcher.