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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 ...

The Ryzen 7 5800X, which launched five years ago, is currently the top-selling CPU on Amazon UK, while its refresh, the 5800XT, sits in fourth place ...

When shopping for a new CPU, you're likely to come across many different CPU specifications, such as cores, clock speed, TDP, ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

Overclocking your RAM or fiddling with its BIOS settings might seem overkill, especially if you've got an aging CPU. There are BIOS settings you can tweak if your CPU is maxing out, but there are also ...

QUESTION: I’m in the market for a new computer. Which processor I should be considering? ANSWER: The processor plays an important role in any computer, but the deciding factor is what you plan to do ...

Some recent memory and processing advances are discussed in this article. We look at the latest Samsung CXL DDR5 memory announcement as well as Tachyum’s recently announced Prodigy Universal Processor ...

In current designs, both the DRAM and the HPB sit on top of the processor. That means the HPB mainly helps cool the CPU and GPU, while the memory — which also heats up under load — doesn’t benefit as ...