Qualcomm Patents a Way to Let Memory Chips Handle Multiple Jobs at Once
Qualcomm is patenting a way for memory chips to pause one job, save its place, and switch to another without losing any…
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Samsung Patents a Display That Dims Based on How Hot Your Phone Gets
Your phone's screen is one of the biggest reasons it overheats, and Samsung is patenting a way to automatically dial back brightness…
Samsung Patents a Display Circuit That Feeds Each Color Pixel a Different Voltage
Most phone screens treat all their pixels equally at reset time, sending the same baseline voltage to red, green, and blue dots…
Samsung Patents a Stress-Absorbing Foam Layer for Foldable Phone Screens
The fold crease on foldable phones is one of the most persistent complaints about the category, and Samsung is looking at an…
Qualcomm Patents a Graphics Chip Trick That Skips Pixel Work When Unnecessary
Every frame your phone renders is a mountain of tiny color calculations. Qualcomm's new patent describes a way for the graphics chip…
Samsung Patents a Laser System for Placing Tiny LEDs on Curved Screens
Building a screen out of millions of microscopic LEDs is painstaking work, and placing them on anything other than a flat rectangle…
Samsung Patents a Speaker Built Into a Sliding Phone's Inner Rail
Samsung is exploring a way to fit a speaker directly inside the structural rail that lets a phone's screen slide open, freeing…
Samsung Patents a Chip Circuit That Randomly Scrambles Data Before Encrypting It
Samsung is patenting a way to scramble data inside a chip before encryption even begins, using a carefully sized network of switching…
Samsung Patents a Chip That Does Math Where It Stores Data
Every time a chip does a calculation, it has to fetch numbers from memory and haul them back. Samsung's new patent skips…
Samsung Patents a Display That Adjusts Power Voltage Region by Region
Samsung is patenting a display technique that feeds different power levels to different parts of the screen at the same time, then…
Intel Patents a Fix That Keeps Its Graphics Chips Busy While Drawing Scenes
Every time a GPU renders a curved 3D surface, it can end up with tiny patches that don't have enough work to…
Samsung Patents a Foldable Phone That Tucks Its Antenna Inside the Hinge
Samsung may have found a clever place to hide a phone's antenna: right inside the hinge that lets the screen fold in…
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