What is a cache? A complete guide to caches and their important uses on your computer, phone, and other devices

A cache is a special storage space for temporary files that makes a device, browser, or app run faster and more efficiently.
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How Important Is a Processor Cache?

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...
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Memory Hierarchy Design – Part 6. The Intel Core i7, fallacies, and pitfalls

The i7 supports the x86-64 instruction set architecture, a 64-bit extension of the 80×86 architecture. The i7 is an out-of-order execution processor that includes four cores. In this chapter, we focus ...
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PC OEMs Are Selling Laptops With Optane Cache Drives and Claiming It's Memory

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...
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 ...