When shopping for a new CPU, you're likely to come across many different CPU specifications, such as cores, clock speed, TDP, and manufacturing process. Another important aspect of CPU hardware is ...

My last blog post concluded that a plethora of new memory performance attributes are becoming available. This is in stark contrast with the traditional image of the memory suppliers as a few large ...

Big Blue reveals its new 7nm Power10 server CPU, which enables servers to share multiple petabytes of memory. ‘Instead of having to put a lot of memory into every box, I could actually plug in a more ...

Samsung claims its new HBM-PIM power-in-memory architecture will more than double system performance and reduce energy consumption by over 70%. A few months back, Samsung and Xilinx co-introduced an ...

It's not that it's particularly bad across the board, but in a few niche situations, the much lower speed of DDR4 is becoming ...

Creating a new chip architecture is becoming an increasingly complex series of tradeoffs about memories and processing elements, but the benefits are not always obvious when those tradeoffs are being ...

Erm. Well. There are a lot of possible answers to that. Some points:<BR><BR>1. Java is generally compiled to bytecode, which is then interpreted at run-time. (There are exceptions, and some ...