Virtual RAM can help boost PC performance when resources are scarce. While it can be useful, it's not a replacement for ...

This year, there won't be enough memory to meet worldwide demand because powerful AI chips made by the likes of Nvidia, AMD and Google need so much of it. Prices for computer memory, or RAM, are ...

If you like the price of that server, PC, or storage array, you'd better act fast.… The spiraling cost of computer memory is forcing hardware vendors to shrink the time a quoted price is honored, as ...

Video gamers were among the first to grumble when supplies of random access memory (RAM) chips began to run short last year, causing prices to soar. But the ongoing crisis — which has been dubbed ...

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 ...

Last summer, the workstation I use for writing these articles felt sluggish. You know how it goes, right? I'm using the same web browsers and word processor as always ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

When built my new rig in late 2023 I choose 32GB of memory. My dad is still running 8GB. My Old Thinkpad only has 4GB. Now wondering since Microsoft and other companies are pushing AI, by how much ...

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 ...

Google’s TurboQuant has the internet joking about Pied Piper from HBO's "Silicon Valley." The compression algorithm promises ...