My last blog post concluded that a plethora of new memory performance attributes are becoming available. This is in stark contrast with the traditional image of the memory suppliers as a few large ...

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 ...

One of the most fundamental problems in modern silicon is known as the processor-memory performance gap. The term, which has been used for decades, refers to the well-known tendency for CPUs to ...

AMD is hosting its Fusion Developer Summit this week, and the overarching theme is heterogeneous computing and the convergence of the CPU and GPU. Is shared memory and true heterogeneous computing the ...