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How your memory controller could be a hidden bottleneck in your PC

If you’re an enthusiast trying to get the most performance out of your RAM kit, you might find yourself spending hours tuning for higher frequencies or tighter timings. What you may find, on some ...
EDN

Serial memory controller designed for AI and machine learning workloads

Microchip Technology Inc. has claimed the industry’s first commercially available serial memory controller, while marking its entry into the memory infrastructure market. The SMC 1000 8x25G for data ...
Hackaday

Direct Memory Access: Data Transfer Without Micro-Management

In the most simple computer system architecture, all control lies with the CPU (Central Processing Unit). This means not only the execution of commands that affect the CPU’s internal register or cache ...
TechSpot

AMD Ryzen 3000 series memory controller can overclock up to DDR4 5000 MHz

As we edge closer to the launch of AMD's Ryzen 3000 series we are learning more details about some of the new features it will offer. The latest of which is that the Zen 2 architecture will be able to ...
Ars Technica

Memtest errors on Test #5 CPU Memory Controller related?

Does consistently failing a specific test on Memtest86 while passing every other test provide a clue about whether a memory problem exists or if the problem is CPU memory controller ...
TechSpot

Which Intel CPU architecture was the first to integrate the memory controller instead of using the motherboard's northbridge?

Windows Millennium Edition (ME) shipped with all of these features, except... Although many microprocessors such as IBM's POWER5 and AMD's Athlon 64 already had built-in memory controllers, Intel ...