AMD Patents a Compression Method That Makes Unpacking Data Faster by Design
AMD is patenting a way to make compressed data easier to unpack — not by improving the decompressor, but by quietly constraining…
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Memory & storage patents
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 Drive That Clears Out Obsolete Files Before You Ask
Flash storage has a quirky problem: you can't write new data until old data is erased first — and erasing takes time.…
Samsung Patents a Way to Turn Unused SSD Space into Extra RAM
What if your SSD could quietly donate its unused elbow room to your system's RAM pool? That's the core idea behind Samsung's…
Samsung Patents a Storage Device That Sorts Data by App
Most storage systems treat all data the same — a random pile that everything has to dig through. Samsung's new patent wants…
Samsung Patents a Way to Sync Garbage Collection Across Multiple SSDs
Every SSD periodically stops to do housekeeping — and when multiple drives do it at different times, your system stutters unpredictably. Samsung's…
IBM Patents a System That Automatically Fixes App Memory Access Failures
When an app tries to touch protected OS memory and gets rejected, someone has to clean up the mess. IBM's new patent…
IBM Patents a System That Wakes Storage Drives Up Before You Need Them
Every time your computer wakes a sleeping storage drive, there's a delay — sometimes hundreds of milliseconds. IBM wants to eliminate that…
Qualcomm Patents a Memory Architecture with Dedicated Metadata Storage Lanes
Qualcomm is patenting a memory controller design that gives metadata — the bookkeeping information attached to every chunk of data — its…
Samsung Patents Per-Host Encryption for Shared CXL Memory Devices
When multiple servers share the same pool of memory — a growing trend in modern data centers — how do you stop…
Nvidia Patents a Cloud-Assisted Rollback System for Cluster Storage Recovery
Losing a storage cluster to corruption or failure is one of the worst days in enterprise IT. Nvidia's latest patent describes a…
Samsung Patents an Adaptive Row Hammer Detection System for DRAM
Row hammer attacks can corrupt memory by repeatedly accessing adjacent DRAM rows — and Samsung's new patent describes a controller that watches…
Samsung Patents a Pre-Read Trick That Beats Cache Lookup Latency
What if your memory system stopped waiting to find out if data is cached, and just started fetching it anyway — in…
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