Nvidia Patents Hardware Ray Tracing for Curved 3D Geometry
Rendering realistic hair, fur, or cables in real time has always forced GPUs to cheat. Nvidia's new patent moves curve geometry —…
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Nvidia Patents an API That Stores Compressed Video With Its Own Decompression Instructions
Nvidia is patenting a way for a GPU to store compressed video data together with a built-in recipe for how to decompress…
Tesla Patents a Parallel 2D Matrix Processor for Accelerated AI Image Math
Tesla is patenting the math engine at the heart of neural network image processing — a two-dimensional matrix processor designed to run…
Samsung Patents a Hybrid SEM Imaging Method for Cleaner Chip Inspection
Getting a sharp, low-noise image of a chip wafer under an electron microscope is a classic tradeoff: slow the scan down and…
Samsung Patents a Modular Camera Stack That Chains Units Together on One Board
Samsung is rethinking how multiple camera modules wire into a phone — instead of each camera running its own cable to the…
Samsung Patents an Auto-Focusing Liquid Crystal Lens Assembly for Wearables
Samsung has filed a patent for a wearable lens system that can physically move *and* electronically change its focus — using a…
IBM Patents a Co-Packaged Optical Module for High-Density Chip Interconnects
As AI clusters demand ever-faster chip-to-chip links, IBM is patenting a way to embed optical hardware directly inside a chip package —…
Sony Patents a Thermal Throttle for In-Car Cabin Monitoring Cameras
A car parked in the summer sun can turn into an oven — and that's a real problem for the cameras and…
Intel Patents Parallel Huffman Decoding to Compress LLM Weights on GPU
Running a large language model on a GPU requires moving enormous amounts of weight data around — and that bandwidth cost is…
Intel Patents a Way to Send Pre-Compiled Commands Directly to GPU Hardware
Every time your GPU runs a task, the graphics driver spends time translating instructions into hardware commands. Intel's patent describes a way…
AMD Patents a Runtime GPU Shader Scheduler That Learns From Past Frames
AMD is filing a patent for a GPU scheduling system that watches how your games actually run — across multiple frames —…
Nvidia Patents a GPU Method for Splitting Tensor Operations into Parallel Paths
Tensor operations are the heartbeat of modern AI — but certain flavors, like the ones used in physics-aware neural networks, are notoriously…
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