Cache memory is a vital part of a PC's performance and efficiency. However, you can't directly control how much cache you'll have available, and are only able to clear it when it gets too full.

What exactly is cache? We have packed together everything you need to know about caches and how they are important to modern-day technology.

Both Spectre and Meltdown use cache in a timing based attack. Since cached memory is much faster to access, an attacker can measure access time to determine if memory is coming from RAM or the cache.

Cache and memory in the many-core era As CPUs gain more cores, resource management becomes a critical performance … ...

A cache works by making a copy of a large chunk of external, slow memory that it can then feed quickly to the processor in smaller chunks as required. As it's far more efficient to do one large ...

Optane Memory uses a "least recently used" (LRU) approach to determine what gets stored in the fast cache. All initial data reads come from the slower HDD storage, and the data gets copied over to ...

A disk or memory cache that supports writing. Data normally written to memory or to disk by the CPU is first written into the cache. During idle machine cycles, the data are written from the cache ...

Hi all,I run an AMD K6-2 500 on an ASUS P5A-B. At present the board can only cache about 128Mb. of RAM with it's existing 512K of cache memory. However, I have read in the spec sheets for this ...