This paper is concerned with the analysis of an extended dissipativity performance for a class of bidirectional associative memory (BAM) neural networks (NNs) having timeâvarying delays. To achieve this, the idea of the delayâpartitioning approach is used, where the range of timeâvarying delay factors is partitioned into a finite number of equidistant subintervals. A delayâpartitioning based LyapunovâKrasovskii function is introduced on these intervals, and some new delayâdependent extended dissipativity results are established in terms of linear matrix inequalities, which also depend on the partition size of the delay factor. Further, numerical examples are performed to acknowledge the extended dissipativity performance of delayed discreteâtime BAM NN; further, four case studies were explored with their simulations to validate the impact of the delayâpartitioning approach.