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…
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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 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…
Samsung Patents a Smarter Error-Correction Encoding Scheme for Flash Storage
Flash memory wears out partly because not all bit patterns are equally kind to the cells that store them. Samsung's new patent…
IBM Patents a Non-Disruptive Fault Isolation System for Server I/O Hardware
When a network card or storage adapter inside a server cluster goes haywire, the usual fix is painful: bring things down, pull…
IBM Patents a Resilient Network Cache System for Virtual Machine Environments
When a virtual I/O server crashes in a busy data center, every virtual machine depending on it can grind to a halt.…
Apple Patents a Method for Interleaving Chunked Entropy Data Streams
Apple has filed a patent describing a way to weave two separate data streams together at the chunk level — slotting pieces…
Microsoft Patents a CPU Performance Sampler That Avoids Polluting Its Own Cache
Profiling a CPU is a bit like measuring your car's speed by adding a second engine to power the speedometer — the…
Microsoft Patents Synthetic DNA Tags That Log a Product's Entire Supply Chain Journey
Imagine if every head of lettuce carried an invisible molecular diary of every farm, warehouse, and truck stop it passed through. That's…
Microsoft Patents NVMe Command Batching for Faster Network Storage
Microsoft is patenting a way to make cloud storage behave more like local storage — by teaching a hardware controller to bundle…
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