Samsung Patents a Way to Route Chip Data Through Ordinary CPU Registers
Most chips need special instructions to feed data to an AI accelerator. Samsung's new patent skips the custom plumbing entirely by hijacking…
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From processors and AI accelerators to the packaging and cooling that hold them together, this is where the silicon race lives. Every chip filing, decoded without the jargon.
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Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Measures Distance While Adjusting Its Own Sensitivity
Measuring distance with a camera is a bit like trying to photograph both a candle and a floodlight at the same time.…
Samsung Patents a Two-Stage Light Detector for Faster Chip-to-Chip Optical Links
Moving data around inside a computer with light instead of electricity is one of the bigger bets in chip design right now.…
Apple Patents Technology That Predicts Where Code Will Jump Before It Leaps
Every time a processor hits a 'jump instruction' that points to an unpredictable destination, it slows down. Apple's latest patent describes a…
Microsoft Patents Light-Based System That Stores and Recalls Data Like a Brain
Microsoft is patenting a way to run a type of AI memory network using lasers instead of traditional computer chips — an…
Microsoft Patents a Chip Circuit That Runs Complex Math in Fewer Steps
Deep inside every AI chip, the same arithmetic operations repeat billions of times per second. Microsoft's latest patent tries to shave time…
Microsoft Patents Faster Data Comparison on Chips That Run Custom Hardware Circuits
FPGAs — the reconfigurable chips Microsoft uses heavily in its Azure data centers — are powerful but have limited built-in resources. This…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Speed Up the Math at the Heart of Every AI Model
Almost every AI model — from image generators to chatbots — runs on one operation repeated billions of times: matrix multiplication. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents an AI System That Predicts Chip Stress Before It Happens
Most chips wait until they're already overheating to slow down. Nvidia's new patent describes an AI that sees the heat coming and…
Samsung Patents a Dual-Waveguide Design for Controlling Light in Chips
Light-based chips are becoming a serious alternative to copper wiring inside data centers, and Samsung is filing the underlying plumbing that makes…
Samsung Patents a New Metal Alloy for the Wires Inside Its Chips
The tiny wires inside a computer chip are one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern electronics — and Samsung thinks a new…
Samsung Patents a Self-Correcting Voltage Circuit for Memory Chips
Every time a memory chip reads or writes data, tiny voltage spikes can throw off the signal on the wire that selects…
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