Samsung Patents a Single Sensor That Checks Three Chip Health Signs at Once
Keeping a chip running accurately requires checking several things at once — timing wobble, manufacturing consistency, and signal shape — and Samsung…
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Chip patents
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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Microsoft's New Patent Replaces AI Chips with Beams of Light
Microsoft has filed a patent for a system that performs AI calculations using grids of laser light rather than electrical circuits —…
Microsoft Patents a Paper-Thin Lens That Makes Thermal Cameras See in Much Finer Detail
Thermal cameras — the kind that 'see' heat instead of light — have always needed bulky, expensive optics to produce a sharp…
Nvidia Patents a Lighting Cache System That Speeds Up Ray-Traced Scenes
Ray tracing looks stunning but it's brutally expensive — your GPU has to figure out how every light source affects every surface…
OpenAI Patents a Custom AI Chip That Stacks Memory Directly on the Processor
Moving data around inside a chip burns a surprising amount of energy — and OpenAI thinks the fix is to stop moving…
Amazon Patents a System That Directs AI Tasks to the Right Chip Automatically
Running AI models efficiently means knowing which chip should handle which job — and Amazon wants that decision made in hardware, not…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Pre-Loads AI Data Before It's Asked For
The slowest part of running AI on a chip is often just waiting for data to arrive from memory. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Patents a Memory Layout Trick to Speed Up AI Chip Math
The bottleneck slowing down AI chips is often not the math itself — it's how long the chip spends hunting for the…
Samsung Patents a Memory Chip That Automatically Moves Data Between Fast and Slow Storage
Samsung is patenting a memory chip that watches how often data gets used — and quietly shuffles it between fast on-chip memory…
Samsung Patents a Taller-Stack Method for Building 3D Flash Memory Chips
Fitting more storage into the same tiny chip footprint is one of the hardest problems in consumer electronics — and Samsung's latest…
Samsung Patents a Chip-Making Chamber That Physically Flattens Silicon Discs During Processing
A tiny warp in a silicon wafer can ruin thousands of chips at once. Samsung's new patent describes a chamber that presses…
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