Nvidia Patents a System That Speeds Up 3D Graphics by Recycling Stored Shape Data
Nvidia is patenting a way for its GPUs to skip redundant geometry calculations by storing ready-made 3D building blocks and snapping new…
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Nvidia Patents a Way for GPU Thread Groups to Share Memory Directly
Nvidia has filed a patent for a low-level API that lets separate groups of GPU workers read each other's memory without going…
Nvidia Patents Technology to Pre-Sort Virtual Objects for Faster Game Visuals
Every 3D scene is made of millions of tiny triangles, and the order in which your GPU processes them matters enormously. Nvidia…
Nvidia Patents a Way to Pre-Build the Maps Its GPUs Use to Trace Light
Ray tracing looks incredible, but it forces your GPU to constantly rebuild complex data structures from scratch. Nvidia's new patent describes a…
Nvidia's New Patent Walls Off the Safety System on a Chip So a Crash Can't Touch It
Nvidia is patenting a way to carve a single chip into walled-off sections with different safety rules, so a software crash in…
Intel Patents a Way to Move Data Between Chips on Beams of Light
Intel is patenting a way to send data between chips using beams of light instead of electrical signals, and the trick is…
Sony's New Patent Stacks a Camera Chip in Three Layers to Sharpen Every Shot
Sony is filing patents on a way to build image sensors from separate stacked layers, each handling a different part of the…
Samsung's New Patent Stops AI Memory Chips from Cracking During Assembly
Samsung has patented a memory chip stack with a specially shaped cap layer designed to keep the whole structure from cracking or…
Apple Patents a System That Stores 3D Scene Data in Less Memory Without Losing Detail
Ray tracing looks incredible but it's brutally expensive on memory bandwidth. Apple's new patent describes a way to store 3D geometry in…
Nvidia Patents a Camera Chip Circuit That Rewires Itself for Different AI Tasks
Camera chips are normally fixed at the factory, doing the same image cleanup steps every time. Nvidia has patented a way to…
Samsung Patents a Fix That Helps Devices Pinpoint Each Other's Exact Location
Samsung has filed a patent describing a two-stage filtering process that lets a UWB chip figure out exactly where a signal's useful…
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