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…
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Qualcomm is patenting a way for a phone's graphics driver to automatically detect when a game frame is about to be expensive…
Every time a CPU and an AI accelerator talk, there's overhead. Qualcomm's new patent proposes a buffer that bundles multiple instructions into…
Moving data between memory and a processor is one of the biggest bottlenecks in modern chips. Qualcomm's new patent describes a memory…
Nvidia's latest patent tackles one of the most unglamorous bottlenecks in AI chip design: the processor sitting idle while it waits for…
Matrix multiplication is the backbone of almost every AI model — and Nvidia just filed a patent for a new programming interface…
Modern GPUs constantly juggle graphics rendering and general-purpose compute work — but traditionally those two types of tasks have lived in separate…
Simulating quantum systems is one of the most computationally brutal tasks in science — and the biggest bottleneck isn't raw math, it's…
OpenAI is designing its own chip architecture — and it's built around a simple but powerful idea: do the math where the…
Modern devices often need to encode video in several formats simultaneously — think H.264, H.265, and AV1 all at once. Samsung's new…
Running a convolutional neural network efficiently is hard partly because each layer wants a different compute shape. Intel's patent describes a processor…
Apple's chips already separate efficiency cores from performance cores — but this patent adds a finer layer on top, splitting clusters of…
Nvidia is patenting a way to build and render 3D scenes using optimized voxel grids — small 3D cubes that get iteratively…
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