Nvidia Patents a System That Sends Computing Tasks Through the Fastest Available Connections
When you're running a massive AI job across hundreds of chips, the speed of the cables and connections between those chips matters…
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Microsoft Patents a Connector That Deploys and Retracts With a Single Sideways Press
Plugging in a cable is trivial until the port is buried inside a device, mounted in a rack, or awkward to reach.…
Google Patent Targets Real-Time Error Detection in Quantum Computing Systems
Quantum computers make a lot of mistakes, and fixing those mistakes fast enough is one of the hardest unsolved problems in the…
Samsung Patents an Antenna That Connects to Three 5G Networks Through One Chip
Fitting three different radio frequency bands onto one compact antenna board is a real engineering headache. Samsung's new patent describes a layered…
Tesla Patents a Perforated Glass Window That Absorbs Road Noise
Tesla is experimenting with car windows that have tiny holes punched into the inner glass layer, using the gap between layers to…
Microsoft Patents a Hybrid System That Uses Quantum Computers to Pick the Best Physics Solver
Microsoft's new patent describes a setup where a classical computer tries several approaches to a hard physics problem, then hands them all…
Google Patent Filing Targets Memory Efficiency in Lens Distortion Correction Systems
Every time your phone straightens a fisheye photo or corrects the curved edges from a wide-angle lens, it's doing a surprising amount…
Apple Patents a Trackpad That Moves Its Haptic Motor Off to the Side
Apple's trackpads don't actually click down mechanically anymore, they fake it with a tiny vibration motor. This patent moves that motor out…
Samsung Patents a Storage Drive That Reorganizes Itself When Performance Slips
Most storage drives are set up once and never touch their own internal layout again. Samsung is patenting a drive that watches…
Nvidia Patent: AI Selects Chip Interconnect Speed to Reduce Power Consumption
The cable connecting your GPU to your CPU burns power even when your computer isn't doing much. Nvidia wants a neural network…
Meta Patents a Battery Pack That Guides Itself Into Place
Swapping a battery in a small device is one of those things that sounds easy until you're fumbling to line up tiny…
Apple Patents a Welded Internal Grounding System for Its Devices
Apple has filed a patent for a very specific way of connecting the inside of a device's frame to its main circuit…
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