Qualcomm Patent Targets Video Filter Selection Through Encoding Error Analysis
Every compressed video frame carries hidden clues about what went wrong during compression. Qualcomm's new patent wants decoders to read those clues…
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Every compressed video frame carries hidden clues about what went wrong during compression. Qualcomm's new patent wants decoders to read those clues…
Every time an AI model processes language, it runs the same two math operations back to back, and each handoff burns time…
GPUs are only useful when they're actually computing, not sitting idle waiting for data to arrive. Nvidia's latest patent tackles exactly that…
AI chips spend a surprising amount of energy doing complex math that could be approximated more cheaply. Qualcomm's new patent describes a…
AI models do a lot of math, and right now that math often requires separate trips to different parts of a chip.…
When you split a GPU across multiple chips, keeping each chip's local memory in sync is a surprisingly hard problem. Intel's new…
Meta is building the hardware foundation for a wristband that reads your nerve and muscle signals well enough to control computers with…
Intel wants GPUs to handle some of the trickiest math operations faster by cleverly reusing hardware that's already sitting inside the chip,…
Writing code for one graphics system and having it refuse to run on another is one of the oldest headaches in software…
When dozens of jobs run on the same GPU at once, figuring out how much power each one actually consumed is surprisingly…
Every 3D scene is built from millions of triangles, and tiny ones have always caused outsized headaches for GPUs. Qualcomm's new patent…
Intel is patenting the internal plumbing of an AI processor that handles a compact number format called FP8, which lets chips do…
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