Samsung Patents a Night-Vision Chip That Reads Heat to Capture Images in the Dark
Samsung is patenting a thermal image sensor with a deliberately perforated absorption layer, a structural tweak designed to improve how accurately the…
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Samsung Patents a Circuit That Bypasses a Failing Battery Cell Mid-Use
Imagine your laptop's battery pack has four cells and one goes bad. Right now, that often means the whole pack underperforms or…
Samsung Patents a Faster Way to Test Memory Chip Connections Before Building Them
Before a memory chip ever gets soldered onto a circuit board, engineers have to simulate thousands of electrical interactions to make sure…
Samsung Patents a Computer Chip That Sends Data Using Light Beams
Samsung is working on a way to package a processor, memory, and an optical data connection all on the same base layer,…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Captures Bright and Dark Scenes Simultaneously
Taking a single photo in tricky lighting usually means choosing between a bright shot that blows out highlights or a dark one…
Nvidia Patents an AI System for Auto-Routing Wires Inside Chip Designs
Designing the wiring inside a modern chip is one of the most tedious and error-prone steps in the entire semiconductor process. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Faster Way to Check and Reshape Chip Circuit Drawings
Designing a modern computer chip means shuffling millions of tiny geometric shapes around a digital canvas, and making sure none of them…
Samsung Patents a Design That Keeps Stacked Memory Chips From Shifting Under Pressure
Samsung is patenting a specific physical layout for high bandwidth memory chips that places non-functional 'dummy' structures alongside the electrical contact points…
Sony Patent Links Visual Feature Data Directly to 3D Point Cloud Maps
Sony's semiconductor division is patenting a way to combine two things that usually live in separate systems: a 3D map of a…
Sony Patent Targets Dynamic Temperature-Based Sensor Error Correction Adjustment
Every image sensor gets noisier as it heats up, and Sony's latest patent attacks that problem at the chip level by dynamically…
Sony Patent Stacks Three Chips to Shrink Distance-Sensing Camera Designs
Sony has filed a patent for a distance sensor that squeezes three specialized chips into one compact stack, potentially making the kind…
Intel Patents a Brain-Inspired Chip Approach to Finding the Fastest Route Through Complex Networks
Intel thinks the way to solve one of computing's most common problems, finding the shortest path through a web of connected points,…
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