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.

Abstract: Techniques and mechanisms for processor circuitry to execute a load and expand instruction of an instruction set to generate decompressed matrix data. In an embodiment, the instruction comprises a source operand which indicates a location from which compressed matrix data, and corresponding metadata, are to be accessed. A destination operand of the instruction indicates a location which is to receive decompressed metadata, which is generated, during execution of the instruction, based on the compressed matrix data and the corresponding metadata. The metadata comprises compression mask information which identifies which elements of the matrix have been masked from the compressed matrix data. In another embodiment, the instruction further comprises a count operand which identifies a total number of the unmasked matrix elements which are represented in the compressed matrix data.

Abstract: Techniques for performing square root or reciprocal square root calculations on BF16 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 BF16 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: 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.

Abstract: Techniques for scale and reduction of BF16 data elements 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 a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operands, a floating point scale operation of a BF16 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 BF16 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: 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.

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 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.

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: Techniques for scale and reduction of BF16 data elements 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 a packed data destination operand, wherein the opcode indicates that execution circuitry is to perform, for each data element position of the packed data source operands, a floating point scale operation of a BF16 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 BF16 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: Embodiments systems for adaptive dynamic dispatch of micro-operations are disclosed. An embodiment includes redundant execution units; a dispatcher to dispatch micro-operations to the redundant execution units, the micro-operations having multiple micro-operation types; a first counter to generate a first count of dispatches, during a window, of micro-operations having a first type; a second counter to generate a second count of dispatches, during the window, of micro-operations having any type; control hardware to cause a switch between a first mode and a second mode based in part on the first count and the second count; and a dispatcher to, in the first mode, dispatch micro-operations having the first type to only a subset of the redundant execution units, and, in the second mode, is to dispatch micro-operations having the first type to all of the redundant execution units.

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: 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: Techniques for converting FP16 data elements to BF8 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 from the identified source to packed bfloat8 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 from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions.

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: Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to performing hashing operations on packed data elements are described.

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).

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.

Abstract: Techniques for scale and reduction of BF16 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 BF16 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 BF16 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 data elements to BF8 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 from the identified source to packed bfloat8 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 from the identified source to packed bfloat8 data and store the packed bfloat8 data into corresponding data element positions.