Nvidia Patents a Stochastic Texture Filtering System for Faster, Sharper GPU Rendering
Nvidia wants to replace one of the oldest tricks in GPU texture rendering — weighted color blending — with something more elegant:…
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Samsung Patents a Vertical Transistor Design That Grows Its Own Channels
Samsung is filing patents on a vertical transistor architecture where the semiconductor channel material is grown directly out of the electrode beneath…
Samsung Patents Selective Metal Deposition Process for Memory Cell Transistors
Building a transistor inside a memory chip is a bit like trying to paint the inside of a thimble — precision is…
Samsung Patents a Stepped Isolation Layer Design for Next-Gen 3D Memory Chips
As memory chips get more densely packed, the walls that separate individual memory cell blocks have to do more work in less…
Nvidia Patents a Bird's Eye View Generator for Embedded Vision Systems
Nvidia has filed a patent describing a way to convert raw stereo camera depth data into a bird's eye view image —…
Tesla Patents a Visualization Tool for Wafer-Scale Computing Systems
Tesla is quietly building tools to manage computing systems so large they span entire silicon wafers — and this patent is about…
Apple Patents a System That Lets Chips Detect and Fix Their Own Stress
Apple is patenting a way for its chips to continuously monitor their own operating conditions — and automatically dial things back before…
Apple Patents a Digital-Counting Approach to Measuring RF Signal Power
Apple is rethinking how radios measure signal power — swapping out analog circuitry for a digital counting trick that's more precise and…
Apple Patents Chips That Reroute Around Their Own Broken Test Circuits
Apple is patenting a way for chips to detect when part of their own built-in test wiring is broken — and automatically…
Apple Patents a Chip Lid That Corrals Liquid Metal Thermal Paste
Liquid metal is one of the best materials for pulling heat off a chip — but it has a habit of wandering.…
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