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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to 16-bit floating-point matrix dot product instructions are described.

Abstract: Techniques for comparing FP8 data elements are described. An exemplary FP8 comparison instruction includes fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a first packed data source operand, and an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for a particular data element position of the packed data source operands, a comparison of a data element at that position, and update a flags register based on the comparison.

Abstract: Techniques for converting FP16 to BF8 using bias are described.

Abstract: Techniques for performing FP8 FMA in response to an instruction are described. In some examples, an instruction has fields for an opcode, an identification of location of a packed data source/destination operand (a first source), an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, an identification of a location of a third packed data source operand, and an identification of location of a packed data source/destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate operand ordering and that execution circuitry is to, per data element position, perform a FP8 value fused multiply-accumulate operation using the first, second, and third source operands and store a result in a corresponding data element position of the source/destination operand, wherein the FP8 value has an 8-bit floating point format that comprises one bit for a sign, at least 4 bits for an exponent, and at least two bits for a fraction.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to 8-bit floating-point matrix dot product instructions are described.

Abstract: Techniques for scale and reduction of FP8 data elements are described. An exemplary instruction includes fields for an having fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a first packed data source operand, an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, and an identification of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operands, a floating point scale operation of a FP8 data element of the first packed data source by multiplying the data element by a power of 2 value, wherein a value of the exponent of the power of 2 value is a floor value of a FP8 data element of the second packed data source, and store a result of the floating point scale operation into a corresponding data element position of the packed data destination operand.

Abstract: Techniques for converting FP16 or FP32 data elements to FP8 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 or single-precision floating point data from the identified source to packed FP8 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 or single-precision floating point data from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions.

Abstract: Techniques for FP8 classification or manipulation using single instructions are described. An exemplary instruction includes fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a packed data source operand, an indication of one or more classification checks to perform, and an identification of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operand, a classification according to the indicated one or more classification checks and store a result of the classification in a corresponding data element position of the destination operand.

Abstract: Techniques for performing arithmetic operations on FP8 values are described. An exemplary instruction includes fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a first packed data source operand, an identification of a location of a second packed data source operand, and an identification of location of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate an arithmetic operation execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the identified packed data source operands, the arithmetic operation on FP8 data elements in that data element position in FP8 format and store a result of each arithmetic operation into a corresponding data element position of the identified packed data destination operand.

Abstract: Techniques for converting FP8 data elements to FP16 or FP32 data elements using a single instruction are described. An example apparatus includes decoder circuitry to decode a single instruction, the single instruction to indicate that execution circuitry is to convert packed FP8 data from the identified source to packed half-precision floating-point data or single-precision floating point data and store the packed half-precision floating-point data or single-precision floating point data into corresponding data element positions of the identified destination operand.

Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating sparsity based FMA. In some examples, an instance of a single FMA instruction has one or more fields for an opcode, one or more fields to identify a source/destination matrix operand, one or more fields to identify a first plurality of source matrix operands, one or more fields to identify a second plurality of matrix operands, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to select a proper subset of FP8 data elements from the first plurality of source matrix operands based on sparsity controls from a first matrix operand of the second plurality of matrix operands and perform a FMA.

Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing 8-bit floating-point vector dot product instructions. In one example, a processor includes fetch circuitry to fetch an instruction having fields to specify an opcode and locations of first source, second source, and destination vectors, the opcode to indicate execution circuitry is to multiply pairs of 8-bit floating-point formatted elements of the specified first and second sources, and accumulate the resulting products with previous contents of a corresponding single-precision element of the specified destination, decode circuitry to decode the fetched instruction, and execution circuitry to respond to the decoded instruction as specified by the opcode.

Abstract: Techniques for performing square root or reciprocal square root calculations on FP8 data elements in response to an instruction are described. An example of an instruction is one that includes fields for an opcode, an identification of a location of a packed data source operand, and an identification of a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode is to indicate that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operand, a calculation of a square root value of a FP8 data element in that position and store a result of each square root into a corresponding data element position of the packed data destination operand.

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.