Video gamers were among the first to grumble when supplies of random access memory (RAM) chips began to run short last year, causing prices to soar. But the ongoing crisis — which has been dubbed ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set out to prove himself wrong. Two months had passed since he’d hit upon a startling ...

The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in 2018 exposed computer memory as an easy target for hackers to inject malicious code and steal data. The aftermath spurred the adoption of memory-safe chips ...

Computer memory could one day withstand the blazing temperatures in fusion reactors, jet engines, geothermal wells and sweltering planets using a new solid-state memory device developed by a team of ...

If you like the price of that server, PC, or storage array, you'd better act fast.… The spiraling cost of computer memory is forcing hardware vendors to shrink the time a quoted price is honored, as ...

The latest commodity coveted by the AI industry is computer memory, and the sector is signing deals directly with manufacturers for billions of dollars worth of chips – the very same chips that ...

Last summer, the workstation I use for writing these articles felt sluggish. You know how it goes, right? I'm using the same web browsers and word processor as always ...

If we want to avoid making AI agents a huge new attack surface, we’ve got to treat agent memory the way we treat databases: with firewalls, audits, and access privileges. The pace at which large ...

One major issue facing artificial intelligence is the interaction between a computer's memory and its processing capabilities. When an algorithm is in operation, data flows rapidly between these two ...

While you may have been distracted by Apple’s new product releases and interesting operating system enhancements, the company also quietly a powerful new security feature this week: Memory Integrity ...