Sony Patent Introduces Deliberate Air Gap to Reshape Surface-Emitting Laser Design
Sony is patenting a structural tweak inside vertical laser chips, a deliberate sliver of air, that could improve how tightly and efficiently…
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Nvidia Patents Technology That Keeps AI Calculations Accurate Without Slowing Down Chips
Every AI model lives or dies by matrix multiplication. Nvidia's new patent describes a system that automatically decides, in real time, whether…
IBM Files Patent for AI Math Acceleration Through Analog Electrical Pulse Signals
Most AI chips do math the digital way, flipping billions of ones and zeroes millions of times per second. IBM's new patent…
Intel Patent: AI Tasks Automatically Route to the Fastest Available Processor
Not every core on a modern CPU is built the same, and Intel wants the chip itself to figure out which tasks…
Sony Patents a Camera Component That Measures Distances With Greater Precision
Sony is working on a way to squeeze an ultra-sensitive light detector and its supporting electronics onto a single chip without them…
AMD Patents Method to Run AI Calculations Faster Across Graphics Chip Units
Running AI models requires enormous amounts of repetitive math, and AMD's latest patent describes a way to stop GPU cores from waiting…
Intel Patents a Chip That Prepares AI Data for Calculations Without Slowing the Processor
Intel has filed a patent for a dedicated hardware engine that handles the messy work of unpacking and converting compressed AI data…
Qualcomm Patents a Hardware Instruction That Normalizes AI Data in One Step
When an AI model processes numbers, it constantly has to bring wildly different values into the same range before doing any math.…
AMD Patents a Two-Step Data Conversion That Keeps AI Calculations More Precise
Every time an AI chip converts a number from one format to another, tiny rounding errors can sneak in and compound. AMD's…
Intel Patents a Chip Trick That Runs AI Math in Tinier 4-Bit Numbers
Intel is patenting a way to do the heavy multiplication at the heart of AI models using an unusually compact number format,…
Qualcomm Patents a Video Chip That Cuts Its Own Power During Low-Quality Streams
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a video processing chip that monitors the complexity of a video stream in real time and…
Xilinx Patents a Chip That Throttles Itself Based on the Math It's Doing
Government export rules cap how fast a chip can compute, but not all math is the same speed. Xilinx wants its chips…
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