Running AI models is turning into a memory game

When we talk about the cost of AI infrastructure, the focus is usually on Nvidia and GPUs -- but memory is an increasingly ...

Nvidia’s new technique cuts LLM reasoning costs by 8x without losing accuracy

Nvidia researchers developed dynamic memory sparsification (DMS), a technique that compresses the KV cache in large language models by up to 8x while maintaining reasoning accuracy — and it can be ...

Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar

Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth The rising price of memory has produced an interesting ...

John Carmack proposes fiber-optic loops as high-speed AI cache

The thought experiment began with a number. Single-mode fiber optics can now transmit data at 256 terabits per second over 200 kilometers. Based on that capacity, ...
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 ...
TechSpot

AMD 3D V-Cache CPU memory used to create incredibly fast RAM disk

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...

Intel's rumoured 'bLLC' Nova Lake CPUs will allegedly be 36% bigger thanks to all that gaming-friendly cache memory

Intel's bLLC chips to take on AMD's X3D CPUs.