The disk cache in OS X can sometimes use a fair amount of the system's RAM, and clearing it can help you figure out how much RAM your applications and system processes are using.

Graphic courtesy of the Infiniband Trade Association. Disk access times for hard and solid-state drives are on the left and RAM and cache access times are on the right. Micron's 3D Xpoint NVM ...

CPU cache can have a big effect on processor and system performance. But what is cache, and what does it do? Read on to find out.

Multiple OEMs are marketing systems as if their total memory loadout is equivalent to their actual DRAM + Optane cache. That's not how this works.

SoC designers have a problem: RAM is slow and it can't keep up with the CPU. The workaround is known as cache memory.

How to Set RAM Cache in Firefox. Web browsers like Firefox store a number of commonly downloaded files on the computer in what's called a cache. Storing these files saves the browser from having ...

RAM, or Random Access Memory, is what your computer uses to multi-task. Most devices with any kind of computer inside, whether it’s a PC, laptop, smartphone, or game console, will require a ...

A Cache-Only Memory Architecture design (COMA) may be a sort of Cache-Coherent Non-Uniform Memory Access (CC- NUMA) design. not like in a very typical CC-NUMA design, in a COMA, each shared-memory ...

System-on-chip (SoC) architects have a new memory technology, last level cache (LLC), to help overcome the design obstacles of bandwidth, latency and power consumption in megachips for advanced driver ...

AMD introduced its 3D V-Cache technology in 2022, with a new packaging solution that stacks additional layers of cache memory on top of the CPU.