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.
Inside high-voltage electronics, a capacitor can silently degrade for months before it fails catastrophically. IBM's new patent proposes counting the tiny internal…
Ray tracing is one of the most memory-hungry parts of modern 3D rendering, and Intel thinks it has found a smarter way…
Losing your data when a cloud server restarts is one of the quiet frustrations of running software in the cloud. Google is…
IBM has filed a patent for a storage system that reads metadata attached to incoming data and automatically sends it to whichever…
IBM's new patent describes a way to compress images by doing the heavy, approximate math cheaply and the fine-tuning math carefully, mixing…
Every time a virtual machine reads or writes data, it burns power — but right now, most systems can't tell you exactly…
Storing the precise shape of a 3D object digitally takes up a lot of space — Nvidia's new patent describes a clever…
Every time your phone opens an app or loads a file, it's reacting — fetching data only after it's been asked for.…
Your phone tracks dozens of invisible location boundaries at once — and when memory runs out, something has to give. Qualcomm's new…
AMD is patenting a way to make compressed data easier to unpack — not by improving the decompressor, but by quietly constraining…
Flash storage has a quirky problem: you can't write new data until old data is erased first — and erasing takes time.…
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…
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