Samsung Patents a Coordinated Power-Failure Shield for Multi-Drive Storage Systems
When a server loses power mid-write, the data in transit can vanish or get corrupted. Samsung's new patent describes a way for…
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SSDs, DRAM, and the constant fight to move data faster while losing less of it. These filings show where storage is headed years before products ship.
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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…
Samsung Patents Storage That Decides How to Shrink Files on Its Own
Your SSD is constantly making judgment calls about which data to squeeze together, and those calls have a big effect on speed…
IBM Patents Technology That Warns Before Energy Storage Components Crash Power Infrastructure
Inside high-voltage electronics, a capacitor can silently degrade for months before it fails catastrophically. IBM's new patent proposes counting the tiny internal…
Intel Patents a Compression Method That Makes Video Game Worlds Load Faster
Ray tracing is one of the most memory-hungry parts of modern 3D rendering, and Intel thinks it has found a smarter way…
Google Patents Automated SSD Recovery System for Cloud VM Storage
Losing your data when a cloud server restarts is one of the quiet frustrations of running software in the cloud. Google is…
IBM Patents a Storage System That Routes Data to the Right Hardware Automatically
IBM has filed a patent for a storage system that reads metadata attached to incoming data and automatically sends it to whichever…
IBM Patents Image Compression That Cuts Storage Without Sacrificing Picture Quality
IBM's new patent describes a way to compress images by doing the heavy, approximate math cheaply and the fine-tuning math carefully, mixing…
Microsoft Patents a Way to Track Storage Power Use Per Virtual Machine
Every time a virtual machine reads or writes data, it burns power — but right now, most systems can't tell you exactly…
Nvidia Patents a More Efficient Way to Store 3D Object Shapes
Storing the precise shape of a 3D object digitally takes up a lot of space — Nvidia's new patent describes a clever…
Samsung Patents Technology That Loads App Data Into Memory Before You Need It
Every time your phone opens an app or loads a file, it's reacting — fetching data only after it's been asked for.…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Handle Too Many Geofences at Once
Your phone tracks dozens of invisible location boundaries at once — and when memory runs out, something has to give. Qualcomm's new…
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