OpenAI Patents a Tiled Chip Architecture That Does AI Math Inside Memory
OpenAI is designing its own chip architecture — and it's built around a simple but powerful idea: do the math where the…
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Samsung Patents an AI System That Cleans Up Distorted 5G Transmitter Signals
Every power amplifier in a 5G transmitter introduces distortion — and Samsung thinks a hybrid AI approach can correct it more precisely…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Circuit Board Built for Foldable Phone Hinges
Every foldable phone has a dirty secret: the hinge is a nightmare for circuit designers. Samsung's latest patent takes a careful structural…
Samsung Patents a Bitmap-Driven Circuit for Running Multiple Video Codecs at Once
Modern devices often need to encode video in several formats simultaneously — think H.264, H.265, and AV1 all at once. Samsung's new…
Samsung Patents Adaptive Touch Scanning That Ignores Screen Regions Your Palm Is Resting On
When you rest your palm on a tablet while writing with a stylus, the touch sensor is doing a lot of unnecessary…
Samsung Patents a Touch Electrode Layout That Places Gaps Near Connection Points
Samsung Display is rethinking where to put the empty spaces inside touchscreen electrodes — and the exact placement turns out to matter…
Samsung Display Patents a Touch Panel That Shares Its Middle Zone Between Two Drivers
Samsung Display is patenting a touchscreen architecture that lets two separate sensor drivers co-manage a shared middle region of the panel —…
Sony Patents a Dual-Pixel Sensor Design That Splits Brightness and Color Capture for Car Cameras
Most camera sensors make every pixel do double duty — capture both brightness and color at the same time. Sony's new patent…
Sony Patents a Wrap-Around Gate Design to Shrink Image Sensor Pixels Further
As image sensors get packed with more and more pixels, there's simply less room to fit the circuitry that actually reads them.…
Sony Patents a Game Controller That Pushes Back With a Moving Weight
Sony is exploring a new kind of game controller that doesn't just rumble — it physically nudges your hand using a weighted…
Sony Patents a Two-Color Molded Light Guide for Cleaner LED Indicators
Sony's PlayStation hardware team has patented a clever single-piece component that both channels light from an LED and blocks it from leaking…
Sony Patents a Way to Weave Real-World Voices Into Your Game's 3D Audio
What if someone talking in the room with you could appear as a directional voice inside your game's 3D audio mix —…
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