Intel Patent Applications

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGES WITH FLUID SPACERS TO IMPROVE PIN LOAD DISTRIBUTION

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240413054
Integrated circuit packages with fluid spacers to improve pin load distribution are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an integrated circuit (IC) package, a circuit board, a socket to couple the IC package and the circuit board, a backplate coupled to the circuit board, a loading assembly to provide a stack load to the IC package, and a fluid liner positioned between the circuit board and the backplate.

CACHE STRUCTURE AND UTILIZATION

Granted: December 12, 2024
Application Number: 20240411717
Embodiments are generally directed to cache structure and utilization. An embodiment of an apparatus includes one or more processors including a graphics processor; a memory for storage of data for processing by the one or more processors; and a cache to cache data from the memory; wherein the apparatus is to provide for dynamic overfetching of cache lines for the cache, including receiving a read request and accessing the cache for the requested data, and upon a miss in the cache,…

MACHINE LEARNING ACCELERATOR MECHANISM

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240403620
An apparatus to facilitate acceleration of machine learning operations is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least one processor to perform operations to implement a neural network and accelerator logic to perform communicatively coupled to the processor to perform compute operations for the neural network.

HYBRID AND ADAPTIVE COOLING MECHANISMS

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240407142
Hybrid and adaptive cooling systems are described. A method comprises selecting a cooling system type from a set of cooling system types of a hybrid cooling system to cool an electronic component of an electronic device, generating a control directive to activate a cooling component of the cooling system type, and performing thermal management of the electronic component of the electronic device using the cooling component of the cooling system type. Other embodiments are described and…

COVERS FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT PACKAGE SOCKETS

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240407092
Covers for integrated circuit package sockets are disclosed herein. An example cover for a socket for an integrated circuit package includes a base including a cutout, the cutout to engage a pin associated with the socket, engagement of the cutout and the pin to maintain a position of the cover relative to the socket; and a handle to facilitate positioning of the cover to move the cutout into engagement with the pin.

METHOD AND SYSTEM OF AUTOMATIC MICROPHONE SELECTION FOR MULTI-MICROPHONE ENVIRONMENTS

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240406622
A computer-implemented method of audio processing comprises receiving, by at least one processor, multiple audio signals from multiple microphones. The audio signals are associated with audio emitted from a same source. The method also may include determining an audio quality indicator of individual ones of the audio signals using a neural network, and selecting at least one of the audio signals depending on the audio quality indicators.

EFFICIENT MERGE CANDIDATE RANKING AND SELECTION IN VIDEO ENCODING

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240406380
A block of a video frame can be encoded using inter-prediction, and the motion vector of the block can be encoded based on a motion vector reference of a merge candidate. Some video codecs allow a large range of temporal and spatial neighbors to be considered as potential merge candidates. It is not practical to perform motion compensation and rate-distortion optimization for all possible merge candidates. To address this concern, a hardware-efficient process can be implemented to rank…

ANTENNA MODULES AND COMMUNICATION DEVICES

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240405433
Disclosed herein are antenna modules, electronic assemblies, and communication devices. An example antenna module includes an IC component, an antenna patch support over a face of the IC component, and a stack of antenna patches vertically arranged at least partially above one another, where a first antenna patch of the stack is an antenna patch closest to the IC component, and a second antenna patch of the stack is an antenna patch closest to the first antenna patch. The first antenna…

INTEGRATED CIRCUIT DEVICES WITH FISHBONE CAPACITOR STRUCTURES

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240404943
Disclosed herein are IC devices with fishbone capacitor structures. An example capacitor structure includes a first capacitor electrode, a second capacitor electrode, and a third capacitor electrode, wherein the first capacitor electrode is a first line with protrusions on a side of the first line, the second capacitor electrode is a second line with protrusions on a first side of the second line and protrusions on a second side of the second line, the third capacitor electrode is a…

SELF-ALIGNED VIA PATTERNING FOR BACKSIDE INTERCONNECTS

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240404917
Devices, transistor structures, systems, and techniques are described herein related to coupling backside and frontside metallization layers that are on opposite sides of a device layer. A device includes a transistor having semiconductor structures extending between a source and a drain, and a gate between the source and drain, a bridge via extending between a frontside metallization over the transistor and a backside metallization below the transistor, and a thin insulative liner…

CONTENT SUMMARIZATION AND/OR RECOMMENDATION APPARATUS AND METHOD

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240403376
Embodiments are provided for summarization and recommendation of content. In disclosed embodiments, a summarization engine scores constituent parts of content, and generates a plurality of summaries from a plurality of points of view for the content based at least in part on the scores of constituent parts. The summaries may be formed with constituent parts extracted from the contents. A recommendation engine provides recommendations to a user based on rankings of the summaries generated…

COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240403259
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques for data compression. In an example, an apparatus comprises a processor receive a data compression instruction for a memory segment; and in response to the data compression instruction, compress a sequence of identical memory values in response to a determination that the sequence of identical memory values has a length which exceeds a threshold. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

NATIVE SUPPORT FOR EXECUTION OF GET EXPONENT, GET MANTISSSA, AND SCALE INSTRUCTIONS WITHIN A GRAPHICS PROCESSING UNIT VIA REUSE OF FUSED MULTIPLY-ADD EXECUTION UNIT HARDWARE LOGIC

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240403044
Embodiments are directed to systems and methods for reuse of FMA execution unit hardware logic to provide native support for execution of get exponent, get mantissa, and/or scale instructions within a GPU. These new instructions may be used to implement branch-free emulation algorithms for mathematical functions and analytic functions (e.g., transcendental functions) by detecting and handling various special case inputs within a pre-processing stage of the FMA execution unit, which…

GESTURE INPUT WITH MULTIPLE VIEWS, DISPLAYS AND PHYSICS

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240402828
Gesture input with multiple displays, views, and physics is described. In one example, a method includes generating a three dimensional space having a plurality of objects in different positions relative to a user and a virtual object to be manipulated by the user, presenting, on a display, a displayed area having at least a portion of the plurality of different objects, detecting an air gesture of the user against the virtual object, the virtual object being outside the displayed area,…

KINEMATICALLY ALIGNED OPTICAL CONNECTOR FOR SILICON PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUITS (PICs) AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240402443
A kinematically aligned optical connector may be implemented with a silicon PIC component and a glass substrate component. The kinematically aligned optical connector includes one or more kinematic connectors or mechanical alignment features and visual fiducials that enable true kinematic coupling (i.e., in a three-dimensional Cartesian coordinate system, full constraint in all 6 degrees of freedom, meaning, X, Y, Z planes and all 3 angles), and enables an increased thickness of the…

PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT EDGE COUPLING AND FIBER ATTACH UNIT ATTACHMENT STRESS RELIEF

Granted: December 5, 2024
Application Number: 20240402442
The substrate of an integrated circuit component comprises a cutout that extends fully or partially through the substrate. An edge of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) in the integrated circuit component is coplanar with a wall of the cutout or extends into the cutout. An optical fiber in an FAU is aligned with a waveguide within the PIC and the FAU is attached to the PIC edge and an attachment block. The attachment block provides an increased attachment surface area for the FAU. A…

Systems And Methods With Auxiliary Control Boards Having Interface Devices

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240393848
A circuit system includes a platform baseboard, an integrated circuit coupled to the platform baseboard, and an auxiliary control board mounted on the platform baseboard. The auxiliary control board includes an interface device that is in communication with the integrated circuit through the platform baseboard. The auxiliary control board can perform power sequencing functions for the circuit system. The auxiliary control board can also perform telemetry gathering, hardware security…

ACCELERATED NETWORK PACKET PROCESSING

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396980
Devices and techniques for accelerated packet processing are described herein. The device can match an action to a portion of a network data packet and accelerate the packet-processing pipeline for the network data packet through the machine by processing the action.

SCALABLE EDGE COMPUTING

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240396852
There is disclosed in one example an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC), including: an artificial intelligence (AI) circuit; and circuitry to: identify a flow, the flow including traffic diverted from a core cloud service of a network to be serviced by an edge node closer to an edge of the network than to the core of the network; receive telemetry related to the flow, the telemetry including fine-grained and flow-level network monitoring data for the flow; operate the AI…

ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGE PROTECTION CIRCUIT WITH LOW-LEAKAGE FOR LARGE VOLTAGE SWING OF NEGATIVE CURRENT

Granted: November 28, 2024
Application Number: 20240395800
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit, device, system, and apparatus has low-leakage for a large voltage swing of negative current.