Samsung Patents an On-Chip Circuit for Testing Interconnect Health
As chips get smaller and the wires connecting their components shrink to nanometer scales, verifying those connections without destroying the chip becomes…
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Samsung Patents a Smarter Error-Correction Encoding Scheme for Flash Storage
Flash memory wears out partly because not all bit patterns are equally kind to the cells that store them. Samsung's new patent…
Samsung Display Patents a Dual-Zone Active Layer for Brighter, More Efficient LEDs
Samsung Display is rethinking what happens inside the light-emitting heart of an LED. By splitting the active layer into two chemically distinct…
Samsung Patents a Layer-Aware Privacy Filter for Displays
What if your phone could make just your banking app invisible to the person sitting next to you on the subway —…
Samsung Display Patents a Semiconductor Layer Layout to Reduce Signal Interference
Samsung Display is patenting a specific physical arrangement of semiconductor regions inside a display panel — one where a key semiconductor portion…
Samsung Patents a Self-Descaling Docking Station for Robot Mops
Robot mops that heat water for cleaning are a great idea — until limescale quietly gunks up the heating element and kills…
Samsung Patents a Context-Aware Lighting System for Freezer Drawers
Opening the top freezer drawer is simple — always turn the lights on. But opening the bottom drawer? Samsung thinks that deserves…
Samsung Patents a Multi-Grating Overlay Measurement Method for Chip Fabrication
Getting semiconductor layers to line up within a few nanometers across an entire wafer is one of the hardest problems in chip…
IBM Patents a Tapered Contact Structure for Next-Gen Nanosheet Transistors
As transistors shrink to nanosheet dimensions, the tiny metal contacts that carry current in and out become a serious engineering headache. IBM's…
IBM Patents a Hybrid Bonding Structure to Pull Heat Out of Stacked Chips
As chips get stacked closer together, heat has nowhere to go — and that thermal buildup is quietly becoming one of the…
IBM Patents a Transistor-Swapping Trick to Shrink Chip Cell Layouts
IBM has found a clever workaround for a rigid constraint in chip layout tools — temporarily disguising one type of transistor as…
IBM Patents a Flux-Tunable Superconducting Switch for Quantum Signal Routing
Routing signals inside a quantum computer is one of the messiest unsolved problems in the field — and IBM thinks a tiny…
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