Graphic courtesy of the Infiniband Trade Association. Disk access times for hard and solid-state drives are on the left and RAM and cache access times are on the right. Micron's 3D Xpoint NVM ...

Many people have heard the term cache coherency without fully understanding the considerations in the context of system-on-chip (SoC) devices, especially those using a network-on-chip (NoC). To ...

Local memory and storage can play an important role. Local cached content allows content delivery without burdening Internet networks. On-chip memory also speeds up AI applications and reduces ...

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 ...

NetSpeed Systems Inc., the supplier of on-chip network IP that is streamlining SoC design, announced the release of its Gemini 2.0 product, the industry's first fully configurable cache-coherent ...

Intel formally launched the Optane persistent memory product line, which includes 3D Xpoint memory technology. The solution is meant to sit between DRAM and NAND and to speed up performance.

Everspin Technologies today announced that Buffalo Memory is introducing a new industrial SATA III SSD that incorporates Everspin’s Spin-Torque MRAM ( ...

Enfabrica, with its new Emfasys memory cluster, is the latest to deliver a memory godbox in production, and KV caches for speeding up AI inference for ever-more-complex queries could turn out to be ...

Cache is king for virtual directories By Michel Prompt Virtual directories are touted for their flexibility, but the technology isn’t known for its speed.