Patent ID: 11954063
Assignee: INTEL CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A graphics processing unit (GPU) comprising:
a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) multiprocessor comprising:
an instruction cache;
a shared memory coupled with the instruction cache;
circuitry coupled with the shared memory and the instruction cache, the circuitry including:
multiple texture units;
a first core including hardware to accelerate matrix operations; and
a second core configured to:
receive an instruction having multiple operands, wherein the instruction is a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instruction configured to use a bfloat16 (BF16) number format, and the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent; and
process the instruction using the multiple operands, wherein to process the instruction includes to perform a multiply operation, perform an addition to a result of the multiply operation, and apply a rectified linear unit function to a result of the addition.