Major changes to the PC’s RAM subsystem typically occur once in blue moon, but mere years after DDR4’s delayed rollout, that time is upon us yet again. How fast is DDR5? What will I need to run what?

With the launch of Intel's newest desktop CPUs comes the future of PC memory: DDR5 RAM. Here's how to decide if you need it now. Years back, when a small website called out for product-review editors.

Generational leaps in PC memory don’t arrive as quickly as many other technological innovations. About seven years after the announcement of DDR4, the next generation of PC memory, DDR5, is finally ...

Many Hackaday readers will be familiar with the term “core memory”, likely thanks to its close association with the Apollo Guidance Computer. But knowing that the technology existed at one point and ...

A subtle tweak to how RAM keeps time is paving the way for higher memory speeds. Here's what that means for you. I have been a technology journalist for 30-plus years and have covered just about every ...

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 ...

TikTok has declared what a memory sounds like, but it's not that simple. The app has become a way for its users to paint a clearer picture of themselves, where we categorize our likes and dislikes ...

Photographer Mark Richards explores the beauty and complexity of the earliest computing machines. Manufactured by the Nippon Electric Company (NEC), the drum-based machine was one of the earliest ...

If you want read-only memory today, you might be tempted to use flash memory or, if you want old-school, maybe an EPROM. But there was a time when that wasn’t feasible. [Igor Brichkov] shows us how to ...