Samsung Patents a System to Stop Multiple Chips From Reading Outdated Data
When dozens of processors share the same pool of memory, keeping them from stepping on each other's data is one of the…
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Apple Patents a Way for Its AI Chips to Juggle Multiple Tasks Without Losing Their Place
Apple's AI chips may soon be able to pause one AI job, handle another, and then pick right back up, all without…
Samsung Files Patent for Mobile Memory That Compresses Data While Saving Battery Life
Moving data from memory to a processor burns power and slows things down. Samsung's new patent describes a way to decompress and…
Qualcomm Patents a Low-Power Sleep Mode for the Memory Inside Your Chips
Your phone's processor is packed with tiny memory banks that burn power even when they're sitting idle. Qualcomm's new patent describes a…
Samsung Patents a Shorter Signal Path Inside Stacked Camera Chips
Samsung has filed a patent for a new wiring layout inside image sensors that cuts the distance electrical signals travel between the…
Samsung Patents a Way to Make the Seams in Giant Tiled Displays Nearly Invisible
Giant video walls are built by snapping many smaller display panels together, and the lines between them are the biggest visual flaw.…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Stores More Charge to Capture Cleaner Photos
Samsung is trying to pack more electrical storage directly into the wiring layer of a camera sensor chip, which could reduce noise…
Samsung Patents a Screen Coating That Cuts Glare Without Sacrificing Scratch Resistance
Samsung is trying to solve one of the oldest trade-offs in screen design: the more you reduce glare, the easier it is…
Samsung Patents a Camera Chip That Captures Sharper Photos With Less Noise
Samsung has filed a patent for an image sensor pixel that uses five separate control transistors instead of the three that most…
Samsung Patents a Camera That Shows You the Full Scene and a Zoomed-In Subject at Once
Samsung is patenting a camera system that can simultaneously show you the full frame of a scene and a tightly cropped close-up…
Samsung Patents a Flexible Screen Support That Prevents Cracking Along the Fold
Foldable phones bend in the middle, but the middle is also where they break first. Samsung's latest patent targets exactly that weak…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Give AI Teammates a Visual Presence in Group Sessions
When robots and AI assistants join a mission alongside humans, how does anyone know which AI is doing what? Microsoft's latest patent…
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