Non-volatile memories are not the main memory (RAM) in computers, tablets and smartphones. When only a small amount of RAM is required, non-volatile memories can actually be the main memory in remote ...

Following are the different types of RAM and storage technologies used in electronic devices. They fall into two categories: volatile and non-volatile. Volatile chips lose their content the instant ...

Nothing says HPC like having the performance cake and eating it too. In this episode, we drill down on what Intel is doing with their cool Optane memory tech, shooting for speeds that remind you of ...

Intel announced today the first Optane-branded product using its new 3D XPoint memory: the catchily named Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X. It’s a 375GB SSD on a PCIe card. Initial limited availability ...

Even though a computer’s memory map looks pretty smooth and very much byte-addressable at first glance, the same memory on a hardware level is a lot more bumpy. An essential term a developer may come ...

CPU performance increases have slowed to a crawl. NVM promises - and early benchmarks are remarkable - to turbocharge system performance. This is revolutionary tech. In January, Neal Christiansen, ...