Samsung Patents a Chip That Loads the Next Filter While the Current Image Renders
Every time your phone processes a photo or video frame, the chip has to fetch the math instructions it needs before it…
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Qualcomm Patents Technology That Removes Unwanted Spots and Smears From Photos
Fixing a bad photo usually means accepting the damage done. Qualcomm's new patent describes a chip-level method that compares two shots of…
Intel Patents a GPU Shortcut That Skips Redundant 3D Geometry Work
Intel has filed a patent describing a way for graphics chips to skip repeated calculations when drawing 3D scenes, by checking whether…
Qualcomm Patents a Method to Cut Battery Drain When Recording Two Videos at Once
Running two video streams at once is a silent battery drain, Qualcomm's new patent tries to fix that by making two processor…
Qualcomm Patents a Shortcut That Lets Chips Talk Without Clogging Shared Bandwidth
Every time two chips in a server need to swap data, they often have to route it through a shared highway that…
Nvidia Patents a Circuit Design That Splits Complex Math Across Specialized Chip Hardware
Nvidia has filed a patent describing a way to break complex mathematical operations across different types of chip circuitry, then stitch the…
Xilinx Patents an ML System That Sorts Chip Test Results Automatically
Verifying a chip design means running thousands of tests and then manually sorting the results, a process so tedious that engineers often…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Stop Video Encoders from Fetching Data Across Two Chips at Once
Every time a video encoder copies a patch of image from one part of a frame to compress another, it has to…
Qualcomm Patents a Hardware Chip That Decides Which Tasks Run First
Every time a processor juggles multiple tasks, software has to stop and figure out what's most urgent. Qualcomm wants a dedicated piece…
Samsung Patents a Component That Combines Wi-Fi Antenna and Laptop Cooling Vent
Samsung is trying to solve a quiet structural headache in laptop design: fitting a good wireless antenna into a chassis that also…
Samsung Patents Technology That Catches Data Errors Inside Storage Chips Automatically
Your phone's storage chip has to trust that its own internal wiring is working perfectly, and right now there's no easy way…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Feed Its Chips More Power When the Work Actually Matters
Your GPU wastes power running low-priority background tasks at full tilt. Nvidia wants chips that watch what kind of work is coming…
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