Apple Patents Memory-Efficient Streaming Convolutions for Its Neural Engine
Running a deep neural network on a phone chip means constantly fighting a memory bottleneck. Apple's latest patent describes a way to…
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Apple Patents a Transformer-Based Filter for Wireless Oscillator Circuits
Deep inside every wireless chip is an oscillator — a circuit that generates the precise clock signal your phone uses to tune…
Google Patents a Simplified Filter Derivation Method for Hardware Video Codecs
Video codecs can predict color information from brightness data with impressive accuracy — but the math is often too slow for dedicated…
Google Patents a Side Sideband Interface for Flexible Die-to-Die Chip Communication
As chips get built from multiple smaller dies stacked or tiled together, getting those dies to talk to each other reliably —…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Build FPGA Barrel-Shifters Using DSP Multipliers
FPGAs are incredibly flexible chips, but their internal resources aren't all created equal — and Microsoft has filed a patent to stop…
Microsoft Patents an Automated Template System for Chip Interposer Layout Design
Designing the silicon "bridge" that connects multiple chips in a modern processor package is painstaking, repetitive work. Microsoft's new patent describes a…
Meta Patents Active Ground-Tracking Circuit for Cleaner Biosensing Wearables
When a wearable tries to read electrical signals from your body, tiny voltage mismatches between the device's ground and your skin can…
Nvidia Patents an API for Fine-Grained GPU NUMA Memory Control
On a server with dozens of CPUs and GPUs, memory location is everything — the wrong node can quietly tank performance. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents an Intelligent Two-Phase Cooling System for AI Datacenters
As AI chips push heat density to extremes, Nvidia is patenting a smarter cooling system that can switch between two different refrigerant…
Nvidia Patents a Compiler-Driven System for Concurrent Task Pipeline Execution
Running software tasks one-at-a-time wastes GPU muscle. Nvidia's new patent describes a compiler-level system that identifies which parts of a program can…
Nvidia Patents a GPU Memory Error Isolation System for Parallel Workloads
One bad memory cell on a GPU shouldn't crash every workload sharing that chip — but without careful fault isolation, it can.…
Nvidia Patents a Smarter Denoising Filter for Ray-Traced Shadows
Ray-traced shadows look stunning, but cleaning up their noise is expensive. Nvidia's patent describes a way to skip that cleanup work entirely…
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