The processors in today’s computers have grown tremendously in performance, capabilities and complexity over the past decade. Clock speed has skyrocketed, and size has dwindled, even as the number of ...

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 Diablo Technologies TerraDIMM puts multi-level cell (MLC) flash storage on standard DDR3 memory channels (Fig. 1). Today’s microprocessors like Intel’s Core i7 and Xeon have multiple memory ...

EPFL researchers have developed the first large-scale in-memory processor using 2D semiconductor materials, which might significantly reduce the energy footprint of the ICT sector. When information ...