Microsoft Patents a Hardware Trick That Skips Unnecessary Math in AI Models
Every time an AI model processes information, it does an enormous amount of multiplication, much of it involving zeros or near-zero values…
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Every time an AI model processes information, it does an enormous amount of multiplication, much of it involving zeros or near-zero values…
Screen flicker is one of those things you might not consciously notice, but your eyes definitely do. Sony is patenting a way…
Intel wants to shrink AI models right inside the chip that manages server workloads, so they run faster and cheaper on the…
Hearing aids are calibrated precisely for each person's hearing loss, but that personalization disappears the moment you pick up a pair of…
When different parts of a chip send each other instructions, there's no guarantee the messages arrive in the right order. Xilinx's new…
Most 3D scene-reconstruction systems need dozens of photos taken from every angle. Qualcomm's new patent describes doing it with just two.
Every robot vacuum owner has watched their device bump helplessly in a corner for minutes on end. Samsung's new patent describes a…
Every frame in a ray-traced scene forces a GPU to guess which of hundreds of lights is worth calculating. Nvidia's new patent…
Google has filed a patent for a custom chip architecture that lets multiple processing units share the same memory pool while running…
Xilinx has filed a patent for a new kind of optical modulator that uses multiple tiny light-bending rings wired together to push…
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