Small, fast and not so demanding: breakthrough in memory technologies could bring faster computing, smaller memory devices and lower power consumption Memory devices like disk drives, flash... Read more
PRAM’s operating speed is 1,000 times faster than that of flash memory Nonvolatile memory that can store data even when not powered is currently used for portable electronics such as s... Read more
Big data needs big power. The server farms that undergird the Internet run on a vast tide of electricity. Even companies that have invested in upgrades to minimize their eco-footprint use tr... Read more
Magic, they call it. And indeed we may add an appendix to that old saw: any sufficiently advanced, or sufficiently obscure, technology is indistinguishable from magic. You must know the stor... Read more
Faster than SRAM and use 99 percent less energy than flash memory Researchers at Purdue University are developing a new type of computer memory that they claim could be faster than SRAM and... Read more
What’s new, and old, about the latest in computing Today IBM unveiled a new ‘cognitive computing’ microchip that, according to the company, emulates some of the brain... Read more