Samsung Patents a Dual-Waveguide Design for Controlling Light in Chips
Light-based chips are becoming a serious alternative to copper wiring inside data centers, and Samsung is filing the underlying plumbing that makes…
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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…
Samsung Patents a Self-Correcting Voltage Circuit for Memory Chips
Every time a memory chip reads or writes data, tiny voltage spikes can throw off the signal on the wire that selects…
Samsung Patents a New Wiring Layout for Chips Stacked Inside a Single Package
When chip designers stack multiple memory dies on top of each other inside a single package, the wiring that connects them can…
Samsung Display Patents Screen Coating That Cuts Glare Without Leaving Fingerprint Smears
Glare on screens is one of those problems that sounds trivial until you're squinting at your phone outside on a sunny day.…
Samsung Patents a Phone-Guided Way to Pair Nearby Sensors with IoT Devices
Setting up a smart home often means manually telling your phone which sensors belong to which device — a process that's tedious…
Samsung Patents a Smartwatch Sensor That Doubles as a Wireless Signal Booster
The tiny electrode on the back of your smartwatch that reads your heart rate might soon be doing a second job: helping…
Samsung Patents an AI System That Breaks Robot Instructions Into Step-by-Step Plans
Tell a robot to 'make coffee' and it needs to figure out every tiny step on its own. Samsung's latest patent describes…
Samsung Patents a Way to Run AI Image Upgrades Inside a GPU's Rendering Pipeline
Every frame your GPU draws has to go through a strict assembly line. Samsung's new patent inserts an AI processing step into…
Samsung Patents a TV That Picks Its Own Fix for Out-of-Sync Audio
You're watching a movie and the actor's lips move half a second before you hear the words. Samsung's latest patent targets exactly…
Samsung Patents an AI Chip That Throws Out Zero-Value Data Before Doing Any Math
A lot of the data that runs through an AI chip is literally zero — useless numbers that still eat up power…
Samsung Patents a Robot That Chooses Its Own Best Vantage Point to Map a Room
Most home robots build their maps from a single camera angle — and if that view is cluttered or featureless, the robot…
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