In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...

One of the most fundamental problems in modern silicon is known as the processor-memory performance gap. The term, which has been used for decades, refers to the well-known tendency for CPUs to ...

In modern CPU device operation, 80% to 90% of energy consumption and timing delays are caused by the movement of data between the CPU and off-chip memory. To alleviate this performance concern, ...