Samsung Patents a DC-DC Converter That Bleeds Off Dangerous Voltage Spikes in Storage Chips
Voltage spikes inside storage chips are silent killers — they can corrupt data or fry sensitive circuits before any software layer can…
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Samsung Patents a Shared-Memory System for Running Multiple AI Chips Together
Running multiple AI chips in parallel sounds great until they all need the same data and nobody's coordinating the handoff. Samsung's new…
Samsung Patents a Shared Memory Mirror System for Multi-Chip Packages
When you stack multiple identical chips on a single substrate, keeping them all working from the same playbook is surprisingly hard. Samsung's…
Samsung Patents an Active Interconnect Die That Connects Stacked Memory to Processors
Samsung is patenting a way to wire up multiple stacks of memory chips — sitting at different distances from a processor —…
Samsung Patents an Optical Interconnect That Moves Data Using Light Instead of Electricity
Samsung is patenting a way to send data between chips using pulses of light rather than electrical signals — a design that…
Samsung Patents a Diode-Driven Optical Switch for Steering Light
Samsung is patenting a way to steer light on a chip using a diode — the same basic building block that controls…
Samsung Patents a Template-Matching System for More Efficient Video Decoding
Samsung is patenting a way to make video decoders smarter about how they find matching image blocks — a small but potentially…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Level Battery Short Circuit Detection System
A short circuit inside a phone or laptop battery doesn't always announce itself dramatically — it can smolder quietly for a long…
IBM Patents a Chip Stack That Combines Fast DRAM and Flash Storage
IBM is patenting a memory architecture that physically stacks fast DRAM chips together with NAND flash storage in a single package —…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Bundle Matrix Math Instructions Before They Hit the Accelerator
Every time a CPU fires an instruction at a hardware accelerator, there's overhead in the handoff. Qualcomm's new patent is about collapsing…
Qualcomm Patents a System That Automatically Lowers GPU Work During Heavy Mobile Game Frames
Qualcomm is patenting a way for a phone's graphics driver to automatically detect when a game frame is about to be expensive…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Batch CPU Instructions Before They Hit the AI Accelerator
Every time a CPU and an AI accelerator talk, there's overhead. Qualcomm's new patent proposes a buffer that bundles multiple instructions into…
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