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Microsoft makes changes to task manager
Published in News
Wednesday, 08 May 2024 09:43

Microsoft makes changes to task manager


RAM gets a rethink

Software King of the World Microsoft is shaking things up in the Task Manager world.

AMD’s new chips might have a slower video RAM than Nvidia
Published in News


But that might not be a bad thing

The dark satanic rumour mill has manufactured a hell-on-earth yarn claiming that AMD’s coming chips might ship with a slower video RAM than its Nvidia equivalents.

SK Hynix releases LPDDR5T
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 15 November 2023 11:33

SK Hynix releases LPDDR5T


Fast mobile RAM

SK hynix has started supplying its customers with 16 gigabyte (GB) packages of Low Power Double Data Rate 5 Turbo (LPDDR5T).

Micron releases DDR5 RAM modules
Published in PC Hardware
Wednesday, 18 January 2023 11:51

Micron releases DDR5 RAM modules


24GB and 48GB capacity

Micron has released 24GB and 48GB capacity DDR5 memory modules.

Linux's boot needs a better RAM
Published in News
Thursday, 27 October 2022 10:06

Linux's boot needs a better RAM


This is not time to be sheepish

Linux expert Lennart Poettering is suggesting that Linux's boot process needs an upgrade by making changes to the intial RAM disk.

Samsung shows off “brain mimicking” RAM
Published in News
Thursday, 13 January 2022 12:48

Samsung shows off “brain mimicking” RAM


Low power MRAM

Samsung has demonstrated the world’s first in-memory computing based on Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM).

Boffins cross an SSD and a RAM
Published in News
Thursday, 13 January 2022 12:35

Boffins cross an SSD and a RAM


UltraRAM is more rammy than ever before

Scientists from Lancaster University say that we might be close to combining SSDs and RAM into one component.

RAM still vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks
Published in News


Sheepish security

Modern RAM cards are still vulnerable to Rowhammer attacks despite extensive mitigations that have been deployed by manufacturers over the past six years.

Apple plans to shove more RAM onto its new iPhone
Published in Mobiles


This one goes to XI

The fruity cargo cult Apple appears to have hired Nigel Tuffinel from Spinal Tap and decided that the next iPhone XI should go to 11 when it comes to RAM.

Dell and HP advertise Intel Optane as "memory"
Published in News


Could cause confusion among customers

It appears that both Dell and HP have been caught advertising Intel's Optane SSD as "memory", or rather precisely, together with RAM, despite the fact that Optane SSDs clearly belong with storage as an addition to the HDD.