Microsoft Patents a Hardware Trick That Skips Unnecessary Math in AI Models
Every time an AI model processes information, it does an enormous amount of multiplication, much of it involving zeros or near-zero values…
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Intel Patents a Chip That Slims Down Software Brains Before Putting Them to Work
Intel wants to shrink AI models right inside the chip that manages server workloads, so they run faster and cheaper on the…
Xilinx Patents an On-Chip Data Bus That Confirms Message Delivery Order
When different parts of a chip send each other instructions, there's no guarantee the messages arrive in the right order. Xilinx's new…
Nvidia Patents a Rendering System That Remembers Which Lights Matter Most
Every frame in a ray-traced scene forces a GPU to guess which of hundreds of lights is worth calculating. Nvidia's new patent…
Google Patents a Chip Layout That Splits AI Work Across Shared Memory Tiles
Google has filed a patent for a custom chip architecture that lets multiple processing units share the same memory pool while running…
Xilinx Patents a Multi-Ring Light Modulator for Faster On-Chip Data Links
Xilinx has filed a patent for a new kind of optical modulator that uses multiple tiny light-bending rings wired together to push…
Intel Patent Lets Users Set a Custom Lifespan for Their Chips
What if you could tell your processor to last exactly five years, and it would adjust itself to do just that? That's…
AMD Patents a Way to Let Programmers Control Number Scaling Inside AI Chips
When an AI chip does math with compressed numbers, tiny rounding errors can pile up fast. AMD is patenting a way to…
AMD Patents a Way to Shift Power From Memory to Processors on the Fly
AMD is working on a way to temporarily steal power from your computer's memory and hand it to the processor when the…
Intel Patents a Faster Path to Sharper Streaming Video Without Burning CPU Time
A filter inside the next-generation AV2 video standard does a great job of improving picture quality, but it's so slow to configure…
Xilinx Patents an AI Chip That Swaps Multipliers for Memory Lookups
Multiplication is one of the most power-hungry operations in any AI chip. Xilinx thinks it has found a way to do less…
AMD Patents Speed Boost for AI Chips That Process Training Data Faster
Reading data from the wrong direction is one of those quiet performance killers inside AI chips. AMD's new patent tackles it by…
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