Hyperscalers have a secret weapon against DDR5 shortages using old DDR4

Marvell Structera X 2404 allows the reuse of DDR4 without buying new DRAMTwelve DIMMs per controller deliver 1.5TB physical ...
Electronic Design

Hardware Compression Works at the Memory Cache Level

How lossless data compression can reduce memory and power requirements. How ZeroPoint’s compression technology differs from the competition. One can never have enough memory, and one way to get more ...
Ars Technica

Limits of memory compression?

With people on the internet insisting that M1 Macs run well with minimal RAM (and the standard configs being minimal), I was wondering if anyone has a detailed explanation on how memory compression on ...
Electronic Design

Content-Addressable Memory Speeds Up Lossless Compression

Content-addressable-memory (CAM) technology, traditionally targeted at high-speed lookups for packet classification, represents a key element in the acceleration of lossless compression.
Semiconductor Engineering

Freeing Up Near-Memory Capacity For Cache Using Compression Techniques In A Flat Hybrid-Memory Architecture

A technical paper titled “HMComp: Extending Near-Memory Capacity using Compression in Hybrid Memory” was published by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and ZeroPoint Technologies.
Network World

Revolutionary data compression technique could slash compute costs

A new form of data compression, called Zippads, will create faster computer programs that could drastically lower the costs of computing. There’s a major problem with today’s money-saving memory ...
ZDNet

Software to double your cell phone memory

Compression algorithms are not really new, so I've looked cautiously at the work of U.S. computer scientists claiming that 'they have developed technology that doubles the usable memory on cell phones ...
Nature

Video Compression Algorithms and Memory Efficiency

Video compression has become an essential technology to meet the burgeoning demand for high‐resolution content while maintaining manageable file sizes and transmission speeds. Recent advances in ...
Fudzilla

Dell defends its Compression Attached Memory Module

Dell's new Compression Attached Memory Module (CAMM) leaked out last week, and several tech sites think it is all part of a cunning plan to"lock out user upgrades." But PCWorld who had a chat with the ...
Hosted on MSN

This little-known Windows feature could be hurting your PC's performance, but here's how you can disable it

The inner workings of Windows 11 can sometimes be a mystery to a lot of people, and it's easy to ignore the fact that some of the features enabled by default can actually hurt your experience. One of ...
Ars Technica

Virtual memory VS physical memory

I have a question and I hope someone can help. When I have VM machine requirements, how can I determine the physical requirements? for example when I have to build a server that will run 4 VM's ...