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

Claim 13:
14. A graphics processing system comprising:
a memory device;
a graphics processor coupled with the memory device, the graphics processor comprising a single instruction, multiple thread (SIMT) multiprocessor comprising an instruction cache, a shared memory coupled with the instruction cache, and 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 including data elements A, B, C, and D and process the instruction to perform operations on the data elements, wherein the instruction is a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instruction configured to use a bfloat16 (BF16) number format, the BF16 number format is a sixteen-bit floating point format having an eight-bit exponent, and to process the instruction includes to perform an operation D=A*B+C and apply a rectified linear unit function to a result of the operation.