Qualcomm Patents a Way to Batch CPU Instructions Before They Hit the AI Accelerator
Every time a CPU and an AI accelerator talk, there's overhead. Qualcomm's new patent proposes a buffer that bundles multiple instructions into…
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Qualcomm Patents a Memory System That Computes and Transfers Data at the Same Time
Moving data between memory and a processor is one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern chips. Qualcomm's new patent describes a memory…
Nvidia Patents a Matrix Multiply That Starts Before the Data Fully Arrives
Nvidia's latest patent tackles one of the most unglamorous bottlenecks in AI chip design: the processor sitting idle while it waits for…
Nvidia Patents an API That Lets GPUs Load Only Part of a Matrix at a Time
Matrix multiplication is the backbone of almost every AI model — and Nvidia just filed a patent for a new programming interface…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Mix Compute and Graphics Work in the Same GPU Queue
Modern GPUs constantly juggle graphics rendering and general-purpose compute work — but traditionally those two types of tasks have lived in separate…
Nvidia Patents a GPU-Cluster Approach to Simulate Quantum Systems with Less Data Shuffling
Simulating quantum systems is one of the most computationally brutal tasks in science — and the biggest bottleneck isn't raw math, it's…
OpenAI Patents a Tiled Chip Architecture That Does AI Math Inside Memory
OpenAI is designing its own chip architecture — and it's built around a simple but powerful idea: do the math where the…
Samsung Patents a Bitmap-Driven Circuit for Running Multiple Video Codecs at Once
Modern devices often need to encode video in several formats simultaneously — think H.264, H.265, and AV1 all at once. Samsung's new…
Intel Patents a Reconfigurable Chip Array for Running Neural Network Layers
Running a convolutional neural network efficiently is hard partly because each layer wants a different compute shape. Intel's patent describes a processor…
Apple Patents a Workload-Aware CPU Routing System for Its Chips
Apple's chips already separate efficiency cores from performance cores — but this patent adds a finer layer on top, splitting clusters of…
Nvidia Patents Hardware Ray Tracing for Curved 3D Geometry
Rendering realistic hair, fur, or cables in real time has always forced GPUs to cheat. Nvidia's new patent moves curve geometry —…
Nvidia Patents an API That Stores Compressed Video With Its Own Decompression Instructions
Nvidia is patenting a way for a GPU to store compressed video data together with a built-in recipe for how to decompress…
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