Despite being 95 years old, Hideo Shimizu still remembers the 4½ months he spent as a teenager with Unit 731, a biological and chemical warfare unit of the now-defunct Imperial Japanese Army, as if ...

In a bid to create smaller, more powerful computers and smartphones, researchers at New York University have come up with a new digital data storage technique they've dubbed "racetrack memory." There ...

IBM Corp. on Tuesday revealed a new type of memory technology that could dramatically increase the speed of graphics in video games, networking and other intensive multimedia uses. The new technology, ...

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Not long ago, solid-state memory was slow, limited in capacity and, worst of all, volatile (whatever data the memory contained would vanish when the power went off). Volatility spelled vulnerability.

The more cache memory a computer has, the faster it runs. However, because of its high-speed performance, cache memory is more expensive to build than RAM. Therefore, cache memory tends to be very ...

Cambridge scientists have developed a new prototype for computer memory that could make for faster chips that could hold up to 100 times more data. The system is made up of barium bridges between ...

Picoheart, a Singapore-based affiliate of ByteDance, earlier this month invested an undisclosed amount to acquire a 9.5 per cent shareholding in state-backed InnoStar, which is headquartered in ...