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…
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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 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…
Samsung Patents a Strain-Gradient Memory Cell to Boost DRAM Performance
Samsung is trying to squeeze more performance out of DRAM by using physical stress — literally bending the crystal structure of a…
Samsung Patents a Self-Evaluating Compression System That Re-Compresses Bad Results
Most compression systems run once and move on — good result or not. Samsung's new patent describes a system that checks its…
Samsung Patents a New Contact Pad Layout for 3D Memory Wordlines
As 3D NAND flash stacks more and more memory layers on top of each other, the tiny metal contact pads that connect…
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