Tesla Patents a Parallel 2D Matrix Processor for Accelerated AI Image Math
Tesla is patenting the math engine at the heart of neural network image processing — a two-dimensional matrix processor designed to run…
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Samsung Patents a Hybrid SEM Imaging Method for Cleaner Chip Inspection
Getting a sharp, low-noise image of a chip wafer under an electron microscope is a classic tradeoff: slow the scan down and…
Samsung Patents a Modular Camera Stack That Chains Units Together on One Board
Samsung is rethinking how multiple camera modules wire into a phone — instead of each camera running its own cable to the…
Samsung Patents an Auto-Focusing Liquid Crystal Lens Assembly for Wearables
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable lens system that can physically move *and* electronically change its focus — using a…
IBM Patents a Co-Packaged Optical Module for High-Density Chip Interconnects
As AI clusters demand ever-faster chip-to-chip links, IBM is patenting a way to embed optical hardware directly inside a chip package —…
Sony Patents a Thermal Throttle for In-Car Cabin Monitoring Cameras
A car parked in the summer sun can turn into an oven — and that's a real problem for the cameras and…
Intel Patents Parallel Huffman Decoding to Compress LLM Weights on GPU
Running a large language model on a GPU requires moving enormous amounts of weight data around — and that bandwidth cost is…
Intel Patents a Way to Send Pre-Compiled Commands Directly to GPU Hardware
Every time your GPU runs a task, the graphics driver spends time translating instructions into hardware commands. Intel's patent describes a way…
AMD Patents a Runtime GPU Shader Scheduler That Learns From Past Frames
AMD is filing a patent for a GPU scheduling system that watches how your games actually run — across multiple frames —…
Nvidia Patents a GPU Method for Splitting Tensor Operations into Parallel Paths
Tensor operations are the heartbeat of modern AI — but certain flavors, like the ones used in physics-aware neural networks, are notoriously…
Samsung Patents an Adaptive Rectifier Circuit for More Efficient Wireless Charging
Wireless charging loses a surprising amount of energy as heat during the AC-to-DC conversion step. Samsung's latest patent targets that exact inefficiency…
Samsung Patents a Secure-Write Architecture That Works During Low Power Mode
Most chips stop doing meaningful work when they enter low power mode — but Samsung's new patent describes a way to keep…
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