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Google patents chip mode that turns vector math into matrix math

Google has filed a patent for a processor feature that lets existing vector instructions be reinterpreted as matrix operations. A special command sets a configuration register, which tells the chip to handle these instructions as matrix math instead of standard vector math.

Why it mattersThis could allow older software to run matrix-heavy tasks, like AI calculations, on existing hardware without needing new code.

In the filing’s own words

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for reinterpreting vector instructions as matrix instructions. One of the methods is performed by a processor implementing an instruction set architecture having an instruction for setting a configuration register of the processor that controls whether vector instructions are interpreted as vector or matrix instructions. The instruction is executed to set the configuration register. Then, when one or more vector instructions are received, based on information set in the configuration register the one or more vector instructions are reinterpreted as matrix instructions.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A processor configured to implement an instruction set architecture having an instruction that in operation sets a configuration register of the processor with one or more values that cause the processor to reinterpret one or more vector instructions as matrix instructions.

Facts

Company
Google (Google LLC)
Official title
INSTRUCTION SET ARCHITECTURE FOR MATRIX OPERATIONS
Publication number
US20260259731A1
Application number
18869530
Filed
May 25, 2023
Published
Sep 3, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
22

Classified under

G06F 9/30036 Physics & computingG06F 9/3001 Physics & computingG06F 9/30189 Physics & computing
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