Samsung Files Patent for Memory That Lets Servers Predict Failures Without Seeing Its Secrets
Samsung's patent application describes a way for a server to predict which parts of a memory chip are about to fail, even…
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A New IBM Patent Lets Chip Software and Hardware Teams Hunt Bugs Together
Chip makers can lose weeks waiting on simulations because the startup-software team and the circuitry team debug in separate worlds. IBM's filing…
AMD Files Patent for AI Chips With a Built-In Spare for Manufacturing Flaws
Today, one microscopic flaw can send an entire AI chip to the scrap bin. A patent application from AMD's Xilinx unit gives…
AMD Files Patent for AI Chip Parts That Share Memory and Run Side by Side
AI chips can lose time doing two jobs one after the other. This filing, from AMD's Xilinx unit, lets the chip's processing…
IBM Patents a Chip Mirror That Catches Stray Light as Signals Turn Corners
Light carrying data on a chip doesn't all travel down the middle of its channel, and IBM's mirror is built to catch…
IBM Patents a Two-Layer Chip Surface to Keep Medical Sensors Reading Accurately
Medical sensor chips tend to lose their grip: the molecules that catch the target can peel off in liquid and skew the…
Apple Files Patent for Covering Up Dropped Video Pieces Before You Notice
Apple has filed a patent for hiding video glitches by reusing the last good picture data. It also adds a status board…
Intel Patents a Chip Shortcut That Spends Video Quality Where Viewers Look
Intel's patent teaches a video chip to spend more detail on faces and less on empty walls, without asking software to redo…
AMD Files Patent to Let Graphics Chips Pull Game Visuals Straight From Storage
Every time a game shows you a new brick wall or a patch of grass, your graphics card has to get that…
AMD Patents a Chip That Picks Its Own Best Code Path While Running
Every GPU instruction set contains dozens of ways to do the same job, and choosing the wrong one can waste a huge…
Nvidia Patents an API That Lets Programs Control How a GPU Splits Its Work
GPUs do their best work when thousands of tiny tasks run in parallel, but today's software has limited say over exactly how…
Intel Patents a Cache Controller That Stops Processors From Fetching Data They'll Never Use
Every time a processor loads data it never ends up using, it wastes time and cache space that something more useful could…
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