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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 26, 2020
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Alexander Heinecke, San Jose, CA (US);
Naveen Mellempudi, Bangalore, IN;
Robert Valentine, Kiryat Tivon, IL;
Mark Charney, Lexington, MA (US);
Christopher Hughes, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Evangelos Georganas, San Mateo, CA (US);
Zeev Sperber, Zichron Yackov, IL;
Amit Gradstein, Binyamina, IL;
Simon Rubanovich, Haifa, IL;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for converting FP16 data elements to BF8 data elements using a single instruction are described. An exemplary apparatus includes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to include a one or more fields to identify a source operand, one or more fields to identify a destination operand, and one or more fields for an opcode, the opcode to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed half-precision floating-point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions of the identified destination operand; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction according to the opcode to convert packed half-precision floating-point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions.