Xilinx Patents Fine-Grained Task Preemption for Neural Processing Units
When two AI tasks compete for the same chip, the more urgent one usually has to wait its turn. Xilinx's new patent…
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AMD Patents a Data-Parallel Method to Decompress Dense 3D Triangle Meshes on the GPU
Rendering a detailed 3D scene means feeding a GPU millions of triangle coordinates — and that data has to arrive fast. AMD's…
Apple Patents an Apple Watch That Detects Surface Taps Using Light
Apple is working on an Apple Watch that can tell when your hand taps a table, desk, or any surface — without…
Apple Patents a Curve-Based Method for Generating HDR Gain Maps
Apple is filing patents around one of the quieter but genuinely tricky problems in modern photography: how do you let an HDR…
Apple Patents a System That Picks the Nearest Speaker When You Hit Play
What if your iPhone just knew to play music through the kitchen HomePod because that's the room you walked into? Apple's new…
Apple Patents a Programmable Chip That Bakes CNN Layers Directly Into Hardware
Apple is exploring a chip design where each layer of a convolutional neural network gets its own dedicated slice of programmable hardware…
Apple Patents a Motion-Gated Heart Rate Sampling System for Wearables
Your Apple Watch sometimes takes heart rate readings at the worst possible moment — mid-stride, mid-pedal, maximum wrist bounce. This patent is…
Google Patents a Double-Ended Qubit Readout That Extracts Two Results at Once
Every time you measure a qubit in a quantum computer, the act of measuring disturbs it — so knowing what state the…
Microsoft Patents a Predictive Digital Ink System That Only Reports When It's Wrong
Your stylus is constantly shouting its position to your computer — even when nothing surprising is happening. Microsoft's new patent flips that…
Meta Patents a Wake Word Arbitration System for Glasses and Wristbands
If you're wearing both smart glasses and a smartwatch, which one should respond when you say 'Hey Meta'? This patent describes a…
Nvidia Patents a Prediction-Based Power Steering System for Data Centers
As GPU clusters push power draw to the edge of what electrical infrastructure can handle, Nvidia is patenting a system that predicts…
Nvidia Patents a System That Tracks Camera Aging Through Pixel Noise
Your camera might look fine from the outside, but its pixels are quietly getting noisier over time — and Nvidia wants to…
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