The term memory in a computer system refers to devices that store information in the form of chips. There are two main types of physical memory in a computer system, Random Access Memory (RAM) and ...

Innovations advance power efficiency and performance for future computing products Los Altos, California, United States - May 26, 2009 - Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world's premier ...

Computers normally store and process data in separate modules. But now researchers at ETH Zurich and the Paul Scherrer Institute have developed a method that allows logical operations to be performed ...

With newer, bigger programs and more apps multitasking simultaneously, the answer to making any system run faster, from handheld to super computer, was always just to add more DRAM. . . and more, and ...

In this paper, the authors analyze the trade-offs in architecting stacked DRAM either as part of main memory or as a hardware-managed cache. Using stacked DRAM as part of main memory increases the ...

New non-volatile memory devices store information using different physical mechanisms from those employed in today's memories and could achieve substantial ...