Cache is king and DIMMS are bling as memory prices soar

Upgraders and home lab builders flaunt their memory-inflated wealth The rising price of memory has produced an interesting ...
Nature

Cache Performance and Memory Hierarchy Optimization

The dynamic interplay between processor speed and memory access times has rendered cache performance a critical determinant of computing efficiency. As modern systems increasingly rely on hierarchical ...

How agentic AI can strain modern memory hierarchies

In effect, memory becomes a record of the agent's reasoning process, where any prior node may be recalled to inform future ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Dynamic KV Cache Scheduling in Heterogeneous Memory Systems for LLM Inference (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM)

A new technical paper titled “Accelerating LLM Inference via Dynamic KV Cache Placement in Heterogeneous Memory System” was published by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM. “Large ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Freeing Up Near-Memory Capacity For Cache Using Compression Techniques In A Flat Hybrid-Memory Architecture

A technical paper titled “HMComp: Extending Near-Memory Capacity using Compression in Hybrid Memory” was published by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and ZeroPoint Technologies.
NextBigFuture

Tesla Not Compute Limited for FSD AI Means 100+ Exaflops and 1+ Exabyte of Cache Memory

Tesla indicated in August, 2023 they were activating 10,000 Nvidia H100 cluster and over 200 Petabytes of hot cache (NVMe) storage. This memory is used to train the FSD AI on the massive amount of ...
Electronic Design

Hardware Compression Works at the Memory Cache Level

How lossless data compression can reduce memory and power requirements. How ZeroPoint’s compression technology differs from the competition. One can never have enough memory, and one way to get more ...