If you look at what’s actually being used on your computer or portable device, only a small percentage of the application code loaded into the main memory is usually active.

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Computer chips keep getting faster because transistors keep getting smaller. But the chips themselves are as big as ever, so data moving around the chip, and between chips and main memory, has to ...

Many of these emerging technologies will transform computer main memory from volatile devices that need a constant data refresh to non-volatile memories that remember their content even when the ...

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How virtual memory works on Android Virtual memory on Android operates similarly to the library analogy we discussed. However, in a mobile operating system, it involves complex software and ...

Modern computer-memory technologies come with a trade-off. There is speedy but short-term storage for on-the-fly processing — random-access memory, or RAM — and slow but enduring memory for ...

A team of academic, industry and independent researchers has demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the contents of "secure" memory systems, particularly in laptops. The attacks ...

The main drawbacks of GDDR5 is lack of capacity (it's point-to-point, so you can only fit one chip per 32/16 bits of memory bus), and cost.