Samsung Patents a New Metal Alloy for the Wires Inside Its Chips
The tiny wires inside a computer chip are one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern electronics — and Samsung thinks a new…
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The tiny wires inside a computer chip are one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern electronics — and Samsung thinks a new…
Every time a memory chip reads or writes data, tiny voltage spikes can throw off the signal on the wire that selects…
When chip designers stack multiple memory dies on top of each other inside a single package, the wiring that connects them can…
Every frame your GPU draws has to go through a strict assembly line. Samsung's new patent inserts an AI processing step into…
A lot of the data that runs through an AI chip is literally zero — useless numbers that still eat up power…
Inside every phone that sends a wireless signal, something has to keep tabs on how much power is actually going out. Samsung's…
Samsung is exploring a way to cool — or heat — a device without a fan, a pump, or a single watt…
Managing thousands of smart sensors and connected devices is already a headache — IBM wants a system that handles chip upgrades and…
IBM wants to move the AI math closer to where the data lives — inside the storage unit itself — so the…
Modern GPUs are powerful enough to run several jobs at once — but deciding exactly how to divide that power, on the…
Quantum computers are notoriously finicky — hardware goes offline, qubits decohere, and jobs fail. Red Hat's new patent describes a system that…
Analog AI chips are faster and more power-efficient than conventional digital ones — but they make math errors that traditional circuits can't…
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