In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

AMD wants to talk about HSA, Heterogeneous Systems Architecture (HSA), its vision for the future of system architectures. To that end, it held a press conference last week to discuss what it’s calling ...

Building a simple 8-bit computer is a great way to understand computing fundamentals, but there’s only so much you can learn by building a system around an existing processor. If you want to learn ...

A computer's maximum supported system memory, or RAM, is contingent on the processor, the operating system and the motherboard. These three factors provide hardware and software limitations that ...

Support for unified memory across CPUs and GPUs in accelerated computing systems is the final piece of a programming puzzle that we have been assembling for about ten years now. Unified memory has a ...

Sometimes you’ll be using your PC and suddenly notice it feels sluggish, for no apparent reason. It’s the type of situation where you’re clicking on things and doing your normal “Windowsing,” but for ...

Intel published last week a research paper detailing a new type of computer memory that was specifically designed to safeguard against speculative execution side-channel attacks, such as Meltdown, ...