Can You Run a Computer Without RAM? Surprisingly, Yes—But You’ll Be Miserable

So far, so futile. Both these approaches are doomed by their respective medium being orders of magnitude slower to access and ...
Morning Overview on MSN

Google’s TurboQuant claims big AI memory cuts without hurting model quality

Google researchers have proposed TurboQuant, a two-stage quantization method that, according to a recent arXiv preprint, can ...
TechSpot

AMD 3D V-Cache CPU memory used to create incredibly fast RAM disk

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...
Nature

Cache Performance and Memory Hierarchy Optimization

The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on hierarchical ...
VentureBeat

AMD stacks memory cache in 3D to boost datacenter CPUs

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Advanced Micro Devices is announcing it is shipping its third-generation ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN

Google's TurboQuant reduces AI LLM cache memory capacity requirements by at least six times

The algorithm achieves up to an eight-times performance boost over unquantized keys on Nvidia H100 GPUs.
EDN

MRAM technologies: from space applications to unified cache memory?

Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) is a non-volatile memory technology that relies on the (relative) magnetization state of two ferromagnetic layers to store binary information. Throughout ...
Semiconductor Engineering

A Primer On Last-Level Cache Memory For SoC Designs

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...