Computer memory and storage have always followed the Law of Closet Space. No matter how much you have, you shortly discover that it isn’t enough. So it’s good news that scientists in Switzerland are ...

A subtle tweak to how RAM keeps time is paving the way for higher memory speeds. Here's what that means for you.

Fungi make up a massive, interconnected part of Earth’s ecosystems, yet they’re vastly underrepresented in research and ...

A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current ...

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Memory is one of a very few elite electronic components essential to any electronic system. Modern electronics perform extraordinarily complex duties that would be impossible without memory. Your ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

A research team, led by the University of Cambridge, has developed a novel computer memory design, which promises to significantly improve performance while reducing the energy demands of internet and ...

Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...

This week in science: bright blue dogs spotted in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone; the pros of going gray; a kind of computer memory made of mushrooms; and much more! A powerful new antibiotic compound ...

The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

Compute Express Link (CXL), the technology for connecting memory, was among the themes at last week’s Future of Memory and Storage summit in Santa Clara. CXL is an open standard for high-speed, ...