Intel Patents a Fix for the Dropped Connections That Plague Satellite Phone Calls
Satellite internet has a timing problem: signals take much longer to travel to space and back than they do across a cell…
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Intel Patents a Streaming Buffer That Feeds AI Work Directly to the GPU
Intel is patenting a way to shortcut the memory round-trip that slows down AI processing on GPUs — by parking data in…
Intel Patents a Way to Find Your Location Using Audio Broadcast Signals
GPS doesn't work well inside buildings, but audio does. Intel's latest patent describes a system that figures out where you are by…
Intel Patents Video Tool That Shrinks File Sizes Before Compression Begins
Before a video encoder ever touches a frame, Intel wants a neural network to quietly trim the color data — making the…
Intel Patents a System for Managing AI Decision Models Inside 5G Networks
Running AI inside a live cellular network isn't the hard part — knowing whether that AI is still doing its job well…
Xilinx Patents a Multi-Die Circuit That Gives Each Chip a Unique Hardware Fingerprint
Every chip coming off a factory line has tiny, random imperfections — and Xilinx wants to turn those imperfections into an uncloneable…
Xilinx Patents a Parallel Compression System That Switches Between Speed and File-Size Modes
Compressing data faster usually means compressing it worse. Xilinx is filing a patent for a chip-level system that runs multiple compression engines…
AMD Patents a Compression Method That Makes Unpacking Data Faster by Design
AMD is patenting a way to make compressed data easier to unpack — not by improving the decompressor, but by quietly constraining…
AMD Patents a Way to Decode Video Using Built-In JPEG Hardware
AMD's chips already contain dedicated JPEG-decoding hardware — and a new patent describes a way to trick that existing hardware into decoding…
AMD Patents a Circuit That Locks GPU Memory Behind Per-Request Encryption Keys
AMD is filing patents on one of the trickiest problems in cloud computing: making sure the data your GPU processes stays encrypted…
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