Sony Patents a Press-Fit Grounding System for Camera Electronics
Sony has filed a patent for a camera body construction where the physical act of snapping the case shut automatically grounds the…
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Intel Patents Technology That Gives AI Tasks Faster Direct Access to Chips
Intel has filed a patent for a scheduling system that lets AI workloads skip the usual software middleman and talk directly to…
Intel Patents a Streaming Buffer That Feeds AI Work Directly to the GPU
Intel is patenting a way to shortcut the memory round-trip that slows down AI processing on GPUs — by parking data in…
Xilinx Patents a Multi-Die Circuit That Gives Each Chip a Unique Hardware Fingerprint
Every chip coming off a factory line has tiny, random imperfections — and Xilinx wants to turn those imperfections into an uncloneable…
Xilinx Patents a Parallel Compression System That Switches Between Speed and File-Size Modes
Compressing data faster usually means compressing it worse. Xilinx is filing a patent for a chip-level system that runs multiple compression engines…
AMD Patents a Way to Decode Video Using Built-In JPEG Hardware
AMD's chips already contain dedicated JPEG-decoding hardware — and a new patent describes a way to trick that existing hardware into decoding…
AMD Patents a Way to Make Broken Data Center Chips Point to Themselves
When a GPU fails inside a massive server rack stuffed with hundreds of identical chips, finding the right one without a map…
AMD's New Patent Wants to Strip a Memory Chip Out of Every Graphics Card
AMD is exploring a way to strip a small but ever-present memory chip out of graphics cards entirely — letting the CPU's…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Keeps Its Circuits from Interfering with Each Other
Sony's semiconductor arm is filing patents on a camera chip design that physically carves out separate zones for different electronic components —…
Sony Patents a Way to Slow Light Down and Make Sensors Far More Precise
Sony is patenting a way to make light travel more slowly through a tiny ring-shaped optical circuit — and that trick, if…
Sony's New Patent Packs a Full Depth-Sensing Camera onto a Single Chip
Sony is working on a way to pack an entire light-based depth sensor — the kind used in self-driving cars and face-ID…
Samsung Patents a Single Sensor That Checks Three Chip Health Signs at Once
Keeping a chip running accurately requires checking several things at once — timing wobble, manufacturing consistency, and signal shape — and Samsung…
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