Samsung Patents a Processor That Runs AI Tasks Faster With Less Energy
Samsung has filed a patent for a new chip architecture that stores AI math data in a way that lets a single…
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Sony Patents a LiDAR Sensor That Recovers Faster After a Blinding Flash of Light
When a laser-based distance sensor gets hit by a flood of light, it can go temporarily blind, and that's a serious problem…
Intel Patents a Processor That Bookmarks Its Own Memory Work Mid-Instruction
Intel has filed a patent for a processor that can pause a complex memory operation midway through, save its place, and pick…
Sony Patents Smarter Robot Navigation That Learns to Dodge Obstacles Faster
Sony wants to shrink the AI brain guiding a robot around obstacles down to the bare minimum. The idea is that a…
Samsung Patents a Folded Zoom Camera Design That Captures Sharper Distant Shots
Getting a powerful zoom camera into a phone thin enough to pocket means bending light sideways and stacking precisely shaped lenses in…
Qualcomm Patents Technology That Keeps Rotating Graphics Sharp During On-Screen Animations
Every frame on your phone screen is really a stack of overlapping layers, and Qualcomm thinks the chip doing the rendering can…
Qualcomm Patents Tech That Lets Users Choose How Their Phone Reads Photos
Qualcomm has filed a patent for a device that lets users choose, at runtime, which image-analysis engine processes a video stream. That…
Intel Patents a Chip That Handles Four Number-Crunching Tasks Simultaneously
Matrix multiplication is the engine behind nearly every AI calculation running today, and Intel just patented a way to do four of…
Samsung Patent Targets Smarter Memory Pre-Loading for Faster System Performance
Modern chips waste enormous amounts of memory bandwidth by caching data they'll never use again. Samsung's new patent describes a system that…
Samsung Patents a Speaker System That Rebalances Audio When Your Screen Slides Out
When a phone screen slides or rolls out to get bigger, the speakers that were perfectly placed for a compact device suddenly…
Nvidia Patents a Number-Rounding Shortcut for AI Math That Eats Chip Power
Every time an AI model turns raw scores into probabilities, the chip has to compute an exponential function, and doing that cleanly…
Meta Patents a Camera That Identifies Objects Before Image Data Leaves the Device
Most cameras ship your raw photos off to a processor somewhere else before any AI runs on them. Meta is filing a…
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