The portion of a computer’s RAM that is used by a hardware device such as a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit), sound card, network adapter, and other hardware components is known as Hardware Reserved.

When a computer in your business experiences a "blue screen of death," it usually means that there is a severe problem with your computer. BSODs can be caused by problems with hardware, drivers or ...

In traditional computer architectures some information is kept in fast and expensive, but volatile, memory, that is, when the power is turned off the data goes away. Other information is kept in ...

A computer's maximum supported system memory, or RAM, is contingent on the processor, the operating system and the motherboard. These three factors provide hardware and software limitations that ...

Memory-cleaner programs may appear to free up system memory, but they usually don't do much to cure low system-memory problems. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

There’s an obvious appeal to off-the-shelf, “install this to fix everything!” software suites. Or, they sound great on paper, anyway: Dump an app (or a few apps) on your PC, and they’ll continually ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

Apple's Unified Memory Architecture first brought changes to the Mac with Apple Silicon M1 chips. There are clear architectural benefits for the hardware — and it is both good and bad for consumers.

There’s an apocryphal quote floating around the internet that “640K ought to be enough memory for anybody” but it does seem unlikely that this was ever actually said by any famous computer moguls of ...

Internet browsers and smartphone apps use a lot of memory which often affect the efficiency of other critical applications particularly programs written in C or C-like languages. Now, Emery Berger, a ...

For design engineers developing the next generation motherboards, DRAM memory is becoming a major concern as end-users demand more memory. Software operating systems are getting larger and the ...

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) put on a Persistent Memory Summit in San Jose, highlighting a major initiative of the SNIA Solid State Storage Initiative (SSSI). Persistent memory ...