Patents by Inventor Mark J. Charney

Mark J. Charney has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20260161441
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, methods, and apparatuses for heterogeneous computing are described. In some embodiments, a hardware heterogeneous scheduler dispatches instructions for execution on one or more plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, the instructions corresponding to a code fragment to be processed by the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements, wherein the instructions are native instructions to at least one of the one or more of the plurality of heterogeneous processing elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2025
    Publication date: June 11, 2026
    Inventors: Rajesh M. SANKARAN, Gilbert NEIGER, Narayan RANGANATHAN, Stephen R. VAN DOREN, Joseph NUZMAN, Niall D. MCDONNELL, Michael A. O'HANLON, Lokpraveen B. MOSUR, Tracy Garrett DRYSDALE, Eriko NURVITADHI, Asit K. MISHRA, Ganesh VENKATESH, Deborah T. MARR, Nicholas P. CARTER, Jonathan D. PEARCE, Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Richard J. GRECO, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Thomas D. FLETCHER, Dennis R. BRADFORD, Dwight P. MANLEY, Mark J. CHARNEY, Jeffrey J. COOK, Paul CAPRIOLI, Koichi YAMADA, Kent D. GLOSSOP, David B. SHEFFIELD
  • Patent number: 12650839
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, support for a matrix transpose instruction is detailed. In some embodiments, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a source matrix operand identifier, and a destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to transpose each row of elements of the identified source matrix operand into a corresponding column of the identified destination matrix operand are detailed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Dan Baum, Zeev Sperber, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney, Barukh Ziv, Alexander Heinecke, Milind Girkar, Menachem Adelman, Simon Rubanovich
  • Patent number: 12619761
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that includes an execution unit to execute a first instruction and a second instruction. The execution unit includes input register space to store a first data structure to be replicated when executing the first instruction and to store a second data structure to be replicated when executing the second instruction. The first and second data structures are both packed data structures. Data values of the first packed data structure are twice as large as data values of the second packed data structure. The execution unit also includes replication logic circuitry to replicate the first data structure when executing the first instruction to create a first replication data structure, and, to replicate the second data structure when executing the second data instruction to create a second replication data structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Robert Valentine, Jesus Corbal, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney
  • Publication number: 20260119696
    Abstract: An apparatus is described that includes an execution unit to execute a first instruction and a second instruction. The execution unit includes input register space to store a first data structure to be replicated when executing the first instruction and to store a second data structure to be replicated when executing the second instruction. The first and second data structures are both packed data structures. Data values of the first packed data structure are twice as large as data values of the second packed data structure. The execution unit also includes replication logic circuitry to replicate the first data structure when executing the first instruction to create a first replication data structure, and, to replicate the second data structure when executing the second data instruction to create a second replication data structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Robert VALENTINE, Jesus CORBAL, Bret L. TOLL, Mark J. CHARNEY
  • Patent number: 12608201
    Abstract: Embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for fused multiple add. In some embodiments, a decoder decodes a single instruction having an opcode, a destination field representing a destination operand, and fields for a first, second, and third packed data source operand, wherein packed data elements of the first and second packed data source operand are of a first, different size than a second size of packed data elements of the third packed data operand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Galina Ryvchin, Piotr Majcher, Mark J. Charney, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Jesus Corbal, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein
  • Publication number: 20260072683
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a first source vector comprising N single-precision elements, and a destination vector comprising at least N 16-bit floating-point elements, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to convert each of the elements of the specified source vector to 16-bit floating-point, the conversion to include truncation and rounding, as necessary, and to store each converted element into a corresponding location of the specified destination vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2025
    Publication date: March 12, 2026
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Patent number: 12541365
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions to convert to 16-bit floating-point format. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of a first source vector comprising N single-precision elements, and a destination vector comprising at least N 16-bit floating-point elements, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to convert each of the elements of the specified source vector to 16-bit floating-point, the conversion to include truncation and rounding, as necessary, and to store each converted element into a corresponding location of the specified destination vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Alexander F. Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Raanan Sade, Menachem Adelman, Zeev Sperber, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich
  • Patent number: 12536020
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, the loading of a matrix (tile) from memory. For example, support for a loading instruction is described in at least a form of decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a source matrix operand identifier, and destination memory information, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to store each data element of configured rows of the identified source matrix operand to memory based on the destination memory information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Menachem Adelman, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Bret L. Toll, Milind B. Girkar, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Rinat Rappoport, Jesus Corbal, Stanislav Shwartsman, Igor Yanover, Alexander F. Heinecke, Barukh Ziv, Dan Baum, Yuri Gebil, Raanan Sade
  • Publication number: 20250362911
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to computing dot products of nibbles in tile operands. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a tile dot product instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination identifier to identify a M by N destination matrix, a first source identifier to identify a M by K first source matrix, and a second source identifier to identify a K by N second source matrix, each of the matrices containing doubleword elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform a flow K times for each element (m, n) of the specified destination matrix to generate eight products by multiplying each nibble of a doubleword element (M,K) of the specified first source matrix by a corresponding nibble of a doubleword element (K,N) of the specified second source matrix, and to accumulate and saturate the eight products with previous contents of the doubleword element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2025
    Publication date: November 27, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander F. HEINECKE, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Raanan SADE, Menachem ADELMAN, Zeev SPERBER, Amit GRADSTEIN, Simon RUBANOVICH
  • Patent number: 12461745
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems for performing instructions to quickly convert and use matrices (tiles) as one-dimensional vectors. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode, locations of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix and a one-dimensional (1D) vector, and a group of elements comprising one of a row, part of a row, multiple rows, a column, part of a column, multiple columns, and a rectangular sub-tile of the specified 2D matrix, and wherein the opcode is to indicate a move of the specified group between the 2D matrix and the 1D vector, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction; and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded instruction, when the opcode specifies a move from 1D, to move contents of the specified 1D vector to the specified group of elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Bret Toll, Christopher J. Hughes, Dan Baum, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Patent number: 12405770
    Abstract: Embodiments for a matrix transpose and multiply operation are disclosed. In an embodiment, a processor includes a decoder and execution circuitry. The decoder is to decode an instruction having a format including an opcode field to specify an opcode, a first destination operand field to specify a destination matrix location, a first source operand field to specify a first source matrix location, and a second source operand field to specify a second source matrix location. The execution circuitry is to, in response to the decoded instruction, transpose the first source matrix to generate a transposed first source matrix, perform a matrix multiplication using the transposed first source matrix and the second source matrix to generate a result, and store the result in a destination matrix location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Barukh Ziv, Amit Gradstein, Simon Rubanovich, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Christopher J. Hughes, Alexander F. Heinecke, Evangelos Georganas, Binh Pham
  • Publication number: 20250265081
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to computing dot products of nibbles in tile operands. In one example, a processor includes decode circuitry to decode a tile dot product instruction having fields for an opcode, a destination identifier to identify a M by N destination matrix, a first source identifier to identify a M by K first source matrix, and a second source identifier to identify a K by N second source matrix, each of the matrices containing doubleword elements, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to perform a flow K times for each element (M,N) of the identified destination matrix to generate eight products by multiplying each nibble of a doubleword element (M,K) of the identified first source matrix by a corresponding nibble of a doubleword element (K,N) of the identified second source matrix, and to accumulate and saturate the eight products with previous contents of the doubleword element (M,N).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2024
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall
  • Publication number: 20250265085
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to load a tile register pair. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a load matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded load matrix pair instruction to load every element of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix from corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix, respectively, wherein the executing operates on one row of the identified destination matrix at a time, starting with the first row.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2025
    Publication date: August 21, 2025
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20250199812
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to matrix compress/decompress instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch a compress instruction having a format with fields to specify an opcode and locations of decompressed source and compressed destination matrices, decode circuitry to decode the fetched compress instructions, and execution circuitry, responsive to the decoded compress instruction, to: generate a compressed result according to a compress algorithm by compressing the specified decompressed source matrix by either packing non-zero-valued elements together and storing the matrix position of each non-zero-valued element in a header, or using fewer bits to represent one or more elements and using the header to identify matrix elements being represented by fewer bits; and store the compressed result to the specified compressed destination matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Dan BAUM, Michael ESPIG, James GUILFORD, Wajdi K. FEGHALI, Raanan SADE, Christopher J. HUGHES, Robert VALENTINE, Bret TOLL, Elmoustapha OULD-AHMED-VALL, Mark J. CHARNEY, Vinodh GOPAL, Ronen ZOHAR, Alexander F. HEINECKE
  • Patent number: 12314717
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. For example, embodiments of instruction support for matrix (tile) dot product operations are detailed. Exemplary instructions including computing a dot product of signed words and accumulating in a double word with saturation; computing a dot product of bytes and accumulating in to a dword with saturation, where the input bytes can be signed or unsigned and the dword accumulation has output saturation; etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Robert Valentine, Dan Baum, Zeev Sperber, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Bret L. Toll, Mark J. Charney, Menachem Adelman, Barukh Ziv, Alexander Heinecke, Simon Rubanovich
  • Patent number: 12293186
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to systems and methods to store a tile register pair to memory. In one example, a processor includes: decode circuitry to decode a store matrix pair instruction having fields for an opcode and source and destination identifiers to identify source and destination matrices, respectively, each matrix having a PAIR parameter equal to TRUE; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded store matrix pair instruction to store every element of left and right tiles of the identified source matrix to corresponding element positions of left and right tiles of the identified destination matrix, respectively, wherein the executing stores a chunk of C elements of one row of the identified source matrix at a time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Publication number: 20250138823
    Abstract: A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode a matrix multiplication instruction. The matrix multiplication instruction is to indicate a first memory location of a first source matrix, is to indicate a second memory location of a second source matrix, and is to indicate a third memory location where a result matrix is to be stored. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the matrix multiplication instruction, is to multiply a portion of the first and second source matrices prior to an interruption, and store a completion progress indicator in response to the interruption. The completion progress indicator to indicate an amount of progress in multiplying the first and second source matrices, and storing corresponding result data to the third memory location, that is to have been completed prior to the interruption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2024
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Inventors: Edward T. GROCHOWSKI, Asit K. MISHRA, Robert VALENTINE, Mark J. CHARNEY, Simon C. STEELY, JR.
  • Patent number: 12287843
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to accelerating multiplication of sparse matrices. In one example, a processor is to fetch and decode an instruction having fields to specify locations of first, second, and third matrices, and an opcode indicating the processor is to multiply and accumulate matching non-zero (NZ) elements of the first and second matrices with corresponding elements of the third matrix, and executing the decoded instruction as per the opcode to generate NZ bitmasks for the first and second matrices, broadcast up to two NZ elements at a time from each row of the first matrix and each column of the second matrix to a processing engine (PE) grid, each PE to multiply and accumulate matching NZ elements of the first and second matrices with corresponding elements of the third matrix. Each PE further to store an NZ element for use in a subsequent multiplications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Dan Baum, Chen Koren, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Michael Espig, Christopher J. Hughes, Raanan Sade, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Alexander F. Heinecke
  • Patent number: 12282525
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix (tile) operations. For example, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a memory address, and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to store configuration information about usage of storage for two-dimensional data structures at the memory address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Raanan Sade, Simon Rubanovich, Amit Gradstein, Zeev Sperber, Alexander Heinecke, Robert Valentine, Mark J. Charney, Bret Toll, Jesus Corbal, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Menachem Adelman
  • Patent number: 12282773
    Abstract: Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix (tile) operations. For example, decode circuitry to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode and a memory address; and execution circuitry to execute the decoded instruction to set a tile configuration for the processor to utilize tiles in matrix operations based on a description retrieved from the memory address, wherein a tile a set of 2-dimensional registers are discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Menachem Adelman, Robert Valentine, Zeev Sperber, Mark J. Charney, Bret L. Toll, Rinat Rappoport, Jesus Corbal, Dan Baum, Alexander F. Heinecke, Elmoustapha Ould-Ahmed-Vall, Yuri Gebil, Raanan Sade