IBM Patents a Parallelizable Simulator for Dynamic Quantum Circuits
Running a quantum circuit simulation is slow and expensive — IBM's new patent tries to fix that by pre-computing and storing wave…
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Sony Patents a Two-Layer Stacked Chip for Compact LiDAR Distance Sensing
Sony Semiconductor is trying to shrink a LiDAR sensor down to a two-layer silicon sandwich — putting the laser emitter and light…
AMD Patents a Real-Time Debugger That Freezes GPU Partition Switching
Debugging a GPU that's simultaneously serving multiple virtual machines is a bit like trying to read a spinning roulette wheel — AMD's…
Xilinx Patents Fine-Grained Task Preemption for Neural Processing Units
When two AI tasks compete for the same chip, the more urgent one usually has to wait its turn. Xilinx's new patent…
AMD Patents a Data-Parallel Method to Decompress Dense 3D Triangle Meshes on the GPU
Rendering a detailed 3D scene means feeding a GPU millions of triangle coordinates — and that data has to arrive fast. AMD's…
Apple Patents a Programmable Chip That Bakes CNN Layers Directly Into Hardware
Apple is exploring a chip design where each layer of a convolutional neural network gets its own dedicated slice of programmable hardware…
Nvidia Patents a Prediction-Based Power Steering System for Data Centers
As GPU clusters push power draw to the edge of what electrical infrastructure can handle, Nvidia is patenting a system that predicts…
Microsoft Patents a Mixed-Precision Dot Product Pipeline for ML Training
Matrix multiplication is the heartbeat of every AI training run — and Microsoft is patenting a way to make the underlying arithmetic…
Microsoft Patents a Sodium-Lithium Chloride Electrolyte for Solid-State Batteries
Microsoft is patenting battery chemistry — not software, not silicon — specifically a new solid electrolyte compound that can carry both lithium…
Nvidia Patents a Priority-Ordered Telemetry Controller for Multi-Device Systems
When you're running hundreds of GPUs in a data center, not all performance metrics are equally urgent. Nvidia's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Chip-Embedded Multi-Wavelength Optical Biometric Sensor
Samsung is trying to shrink a multi-wavelength laser-based biometric sensor down to a single chip substrate — and the key trick is…
Samsung Patents a Near-Memory System for Faster Deep Learning Training
Samsung is filing patents that push AI training intelligence directly into memory hardware — reducing the back-and-forth between a CPU/GPU and RAM…
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