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Smarter design cuts existing SRAM power consumption by 27-85%

Smarter design cuts existing SRAM power consumption by 27-85%
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Industry giant Toshiba announced the development of a technology which promises a substantial cut in embedded SRAM power consumption. Ideal applications include smartphones, tablets and mp3 players -- essentially any portable device with a reliance on high-performance system memory, where…

Raspberry Pi Model B now ships with more RAM, same $35 price

Raspberry Pi Model B now ships with more RAM, same $35 price
  • Posted October 15, 2012, 2:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Answering to the cries of tinkerers worldwide, the Raspberry Pi foundation today announced you’ll be able to get their credit card sized computer with double the amount of RAM. But rather than launching a new and more expensive model they’ll…

AMD's Radeon-branded RAMDisk software now available for download

AMD
  • Posted October 11, 2012, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Software
  • AMD seems to believe that consumers are taking advantage of record-low memory prices and would like to help them put that RAM to good use. The semiconductor company has partnered with Dataram to create a branded RAMDisk software that can…

JEDEC finalizes DDR4 spec, coming to a PC near you in 2015

JEDEC finalizes DDR4 spec, coming to a PC near you in 2015
  • Posted September 25, 2012, 6:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Memory standards group JEDEC has published the final specifications for DDR4 SDRAM, promising more performance, reliability and efficiency than today's DDR3 parts. DDR4 touts a per-pin data rate of 1.6GT/s to 3.2GT/s (giga transfers per second), though JEDEC notes that…

IBM, SK Hynix alliance promises phase-change RAM

IBM, SK Hynix alliance promises phase-change RAM
  • Posted June 12, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Hardware
  • According to the Korea Times, SK Hynix has partnered with IBM to usher in phase-change memory, also known as PcRAM and PCM, as potentially the next generation of non-volatile flash memory.

Neowin's guide to smartphone hardware: memory and storage

Neowin
  • Posted March 12, 2012, 12:00 PM by Steven Parker | Filed in Mobile Computing
  • With such a huge range of smartphone hardware on the market today from vendors such as Samsung, HTC, Apple, Motorola, LG and more, it can be very confusing to keep up with what exactly is inside each of these devices.…

Windows 8 to feature improved memory management

Windows 8 to feature improved memory management
  • Posted October 10, 2011, 1:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Microsoft, Software
  • Windows 8 will have a smaller memory footprint than previous versions, providing better performance to systems and devices using small amounts of RAM. Since the OS will be fully compatible with ARM SoC products, having plenty of available memory on…

Mozilla promises big memory savings with Firefox 7

Mozilla promises big memory savings with Firefox 7
  • Posted August 10, 2011, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in The Web
  • Despite being ranked as the second most popular web browser, Mozilla’s Firefox has a storied past largely due to unresolved memory leaks. As with its predecessors, Firefox 7 will implement various memory leak issues, according to Mozilla developer Nicholas Nethercote...

AMD dabbles in DRAM, intros Radeon-branded DDR3 memory

AMD dabbles in DRAM, intros Radeon-branded DDR3 memory
  • Posted August 8, 2011, 3:04 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
  • Undiscouraged by plummeting DRAM prices, AMD has begun elbowing its way into the system memory market using the Radeon brand. The prominent chipmaker has announced three new DDR3 RAM series: Entertainment, UltraPro Gaming, and Enterprise.

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