Archive of posts tagged: Memory
The Persistence of Non-Volatile Memory: Exploiting the Growing Design Space
Non-volatile memory technologies have a rich past dating back to the 1960s. Fairchild R&D Lab member Chih-tang Sah first noted in 1961 the ability of electric charge to remain on the surface of an electrical device for up to several days. By the 1970s the first...
The Time is Ripe for Disaggregated Systems
Despite being hidden from the end user, datacenters are ubiquitous in today’s life. Massive datacenter installations are the driving force behind social networking, search, streaming services, e-commerce, cloud, and the gig economy. Today’s datacenters are as...
Memory-centric Computing Systems: What’s Old Is New Again
The Memory (Bandwidth and Capacity) Wall The “memory wall” problem, originally coined by Wulf and McKee in the 1990s, pointed out that the rate of improvement in microprocessor performance far exceeds the rate of improvement in DRAM memory speed. Such trend rendered...
Different Approaches to 3D DRAM and Implications for Architecture Researchers
Seemingly insatiable application demands for memory bandwidth, coupled with the energy needed to sustain high off-chip bandwidth, are putting increasing demands on main memory systems. In the quest for solutions that provide higher performance and better energy...Subscribe
