Samsung Patents Technology to Stop Long-Stored Data From Corrupting Itself Undetected
Flash memory has a quiet enemy: time. Data stored in a block that hasn't been touched in a while can literally fade,…
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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 Way to Crash SSDs at Precisely the Right Moment
Pulling the plug on a storage drive at exactly the wrong moment is the best way to find out whether it can…
Qualcomm Patents a Dual-Buffer Approach to Compressing 3D Point Cloud Data
Qualcomm is filing patents on a more efficient way to compress 3D point clouds, the dense data format used in LiDAR scanning,…
New Samsung Patent Shifts Storage Work to Where Resources Are Available
Samsung has filed a patent for a storage system that can decide, in real time, whether the drive itself or the host…
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…
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…
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