AMD Patents a Way to Make Broken Data Center Chips Point to Themselves
When a GPU fails inside a massive server rack stuffed with hundreds of identical chips, finding the right one without a map…
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AMD's New Patent Stops a Single Broken Chip Sensor from Faking a Clean Bill of Health
A single broken sensor quietly giving wrong answers is one of hardware security's oldest problems. Xilinx's new patent tackles it by making…
AMD Patents a Way to Find the Sweet Spot in How AI Checks Its Own Work
AMD has filed a patent for a system that figures out the optimal number of "guesses" a small AI model should make…
AMD's New Patent Wants to Strip a Memory Chip Out of Every Graphics Card
AMD is exploring a way to strip a small but ever-present memory chip out of graphics cards entirely — letting the CPU's…
Sony Patents a Camera Motor That Moves Each Lens Element on Its Own
Most camera lenses move their focusing elements together, like a single piston. Sony is patenting a motor that lets multiple lens elements…
Sony Patents a Camera Chip That Keeps Its Circuits from Interfering with Each Other
Sony's semiconductor arm is filing patents on a camera chip design that physically carves out separate zones for different electronic components —…
Sony's New Patent Lets Camera Pixels Share Storage to Capture More Light
Sony is patenting a way to link neighboring pixel circuits in a camera sensor so they can pool their charge-storage capacity —…
Sony's New Patent Keeps Tracking Cameras Off Until Something Worth Tracking Gets Close
Sony has filed a patent for a positioning system where cameras don't bother turning on unless the thing they're supposed to track…
Sony Patents an AI That Builds Music by Filling In Blanks, Over and Over
Sony is patenting an AI audio engine that works like a digital mad-lib — it deliberately blanks out parts of a sound…
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