AMD Patents a Way to Let Programmers Control Number Scaling Inside AI Chips
When an AI chip does math with compressed numbers, tiny rounding errors can pile up fast. AMD is patenting a way to…
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Intel Patents a Fix for Screen Flickering During Display Setting Changes
Every time your laptop changes its display settings, such as switching refresh rate or adjusting brightness, the screen can flicker or blank…
Sony Patents a Camera That Tilts Itself to Keep You Located
Sony is patenting a system that physically adjusts a camera's angle on the fly to improve how well a device knows where…
Meta Patent Targets Weak Blood-Oxygen Readings on Wearables With Automatic Fix
Blood-oxygen sensors on wearables often fail silently when light signal gets too weak, giving you a bad reading or no reading at…
Microsoft Patents a Circuit That Monitors Tiny Display Lights Without Burning Them Out
Micro-LEDs are tinier and brighter than the pixels in modern best screens, but testing them without damaging them is a real engineering…
Disney Patents a Way to Project Images Directly Into Natural Crystals
Disney is patenting a projection system that sends images into natural crystals, specifically minerals like ulexite and selenite that already have unusual…
AMD Patents a Way to Shift Power From Memory to Processors on the Fly
AMD is working on a way to temporarily steal power from your computer's memory and hand it to the processor when the…
Samsung Patents a Smart Ring That Knows Which Way You're Wearing It
A smart ring that doesn't know which way it's sitting on your finger can give you wildly wrong health readings. Samsung's latest…
Intel Patents a Faster Path to Sharper Streaming Video Without Burning CPU Time
A filter inside the next-generation AV2 video standard does a great job of improving picture quality, but it's so slow to configure…
Xilinx Patents an AI Chip That Swaps Multipliers for Memory Lookups
Multiplication is one of the most power-hungry operations in any AI chip. Xilinx thinks it has found a way to do less…
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