Storage and memory are the two major holding areas for programs and data in a computer, tablet or smartphone, and their interplay is the fundamental architecture of computer processing. Unfortunately, ...

Future main memory systems will confront the scaling challenges posed by DRAM technology and should adapt themselves to use the emerging memory technologies like Phase Change Memory (PCM, or PRAM).

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...