Amazon Patents Technology to Make AI Systems Run Faster on Its Own Hardware
Running a large AI model is expensive, partly because the model's internal settings take up enormous amounts of memory. Amazon has filed…
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Intel Patents Hardware That Finds the Right Memory Locations Faster Before a CPU Asks
Every time your processor looks up where data lives in memory, it risks a costly delay if that address isn't cached nearby.…
Intel Patents Built-In Fault Detection for AI Models Stored Directly in Hardware
Every time an AI model runs on a chip, tiny hardware errors can silently corrupt its answers. Intel has filed a patent…
Nvidia Patents Technology to Format AI Data Inside the Internet Connector Before the GPU Processes It
Every time an AI model trains on new data, that data has to be cleaned up and reformatted before the GPU can…
AMD Patents a GPU Command That Handles AI Math and Cleanup in One Step
AMD has filed a patent describing a way to collapse multiple steps of neural network math into a single GPU instruction, cutting…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Captures Light in Two Separate Passes
Most camera sensors read all their light-collecting cells at the same moment. Samsung is patenting a design that deliberately staggers that readout,…
Sony Patents a Video Compression Trick That Cuts Memory Overhead
Every time your TV streams a video, a chip is doing enormous math to compress and decompress each frame. Sony has filed…
Qualcomm Patents a Layered Audio Decoding System for Cleaner Compressed Sound
Squeezing high-quality audio into a small data package always costs you something in sound quality. Qualcomm's new patent describes a specific decoding…
AMD Files Patent for a Single Chip That Merges AI Processing With Graphics
AMD's chip design arm Xilinx has filed a patent for a single integrated circuit that wires an AI processing array directly to…
AMD Patents a Faster Way to Find Triangles in Compressed 3D Graphics Data
Finding one triangle in a compressed 3D mesh sounds trivial until you realize the data has no fixed address system. AMD's new…
Nvidia Patents a System That Automatically Fixes Distorted Images From Wide-Angle Cameras
Wide-angle cameras are everywhere in self-driving cars and VR headsets, but they famously bend straight lines into curves. Nvidia has filed a…
Qualcomm Patents a GPU Trick That Stops Redrawing the Same Points Twice
Every 3D scene on your phone is built from thousands of shared corner points, and right now GPUs often recalculate those same…
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