Abstract: Techniques are disclosed that involve the multiplication of values. For instance, a plurality of partial products may be calculated from a first operand and a second operand. This calculating bypasses calculating partial products having corresponding shift values that are less than a shift threshold value. These partial products are summed to produce a summed product. In turn, the summed product is truncated into a final product having a final precision. This final precision may be a shared precision employed by multiple processing units (e.g., algorithmic units in a graphics or display processing pipeline).