Samsung Patents a Chip-Level Lens That Sorts Light by Color and Direction Simultaneously
Samsung has filed a patent for an image sensor that replaces traditional physical optics with a surface of microscopic nano-structures, capable of…
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Qualcomm Patent Splits Graphics Chip Work Across Current and Future Frames
What if a graphics chip could do less work by preparing multiple versions of each frame ahead of time, then just picking…
Sony Patents Camera Chip Technology That Reduces Digital Noise in Photos
Sony is working on a way to clean up noisy image signals right inside the camera sensor chip, before any dedicated image…
QUANTUM ERROR CORRECTION
Quantum computers make errors constantly, and fixing them fast enough to be useful is one of the hardest problems in computing. Google's…
OpenAI Patents a Chip That Handles Precise Calculations Without Slowing Down
OpenAI has filed a patent for a chip architecture that can handle different types of math, decimal-style and whole-number, inside the same…
Nvidia Patents a Two-Processor System That Stops Games From Freezing Mid-Task
When a graphics processor finishes its work, something still has to clean up after it, and right now, that cleanup can stall…
Sony Patents a Parallel Image Compression Method That Keeps Encoding Threads in Sync
Compressing an image quickly usually means doing several things at once, but doing several things at once usually means they fall out…
AMD Patents Chip Design That Keeps AI Calculations Accurate Without Wasting Silicon
AMD is patenting a chip-level trick that lets different clusters of math hardware use their own separate scaling numbers, a change that…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Lets Multiple Tasks Share a Memory Unit's Built-In Processing Power
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a system that lets one physical memory-processing unit pretend to be several independent ones, so different…
OpenAI Patents AI Hardware That Skips Calculations It Knows Will Be Zero
A huge fraction of the math inside an AI chip is pointless: multiply anything by zero and you already know the answer.…
Qualcomm Patents a Fix That Keeps Memory Calculations Faster When Chips Think for Themselves
Qualcomm is patenting a system that lets a processor use two completely different rules for addressing memory depending on what kind of…
Meta Patents a Chip-Level Mute Switch That Software Cannot Override
Every mic and camera privacy promise on a consumer device ultimately runs on software that can be patched, hacked, or silently updated.…
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