The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

Is increasing VRAM finally worth it? I ran the numbers on my Windows 11 PC ...

Video gamers were among the first to grumble when supplies of random access memory (RAM) chips began to run short last year, causing prices to soar. But the ongoing crisis — which has been dubbed ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

So far, so futile. Both these approaches are doomed by their respective medium being orders of magnitude slower to access and ...

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 ...

It’s one thing to create your own relay-based computer; that’s already impressive enough, but what really makes [DiPDoT]’s design special– at least after this latest video— is swapping the SRAM he had ...