ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACCELERATOR DEVICE

An artificial intelligence (AI) accelerator device may include a plurality of on-chip mini buffers that are associated with a processing element (PE) array. Each mini buffer is associated with a subset of rows or a subset of columns of the PE array. Partitioning an on-chip buffer of the AI accelerator device into the mini buffers described herein may reduce the size and complexity of the on-chip buffer. The reduced size of the on-chip buffer may reduce the wire routing complexity of the on-chip buffer, which may reduce latency and may reduce access energy for the AI accelerator device. This may increase the operating efficiency and/or may increase the performance of the AI accelerator device. Moreover, the mini buffers may increase the overall bandwidth that is available for the mini buffers to transfer data to and from the PE array.