Every computer needs Random Access Memory (or RAM) for an operating system’s temporary storage, and there’s many ways to ...

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers.

Apple's UMA design -- a single, fixed pool of RAM integrated into the die with the CPU, GPU and NPU -- makes Mac and MacBook configuration choices a little different than it used to be.

The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current ...

A computer memory device that can withstand temperatures of more than 500°C could be used in spacecraft sent to explore Venus or the sun. Computers use a technology called non-volatile memory to store ...

In the future, a new type of computer may be able to learn much like you do—by experience rather than endless repetition or ...

One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling discovery about the relationship between time and memory in computing.

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 ...