Semiconductor Engineering

Dynamic KV Cache Scheduling in Heterogeneous Memory Systems for LLM Inference (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, IBM)

A new technical paper titled “Accelerating LLM Inference via Dynamic KV Cache Placement in Heterogeneous Memory System” was published by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM. “Large ...
VentureBeat

New KV cache compaction technique cuts LLM memory 50x without accuracy loss

Enterprise AI applications that handle large documents or long-horizon tasks face a severe memory bottleneck. As the context grows longer, so does the KV cache, the area where the model’s working ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Adaptive RISC-V Cache Architecture for Near-Memory Extensions (Politecnico di Torino, EPFL)

A new technical paper titled “ARCANE: Adaptive RISC-V Cache Architecture for Near-memory Extensions” was published by researchers at Politecnico di Torino and EPFL. Abstract “Modern data-driven ...
TechSpot

AMD 3D V-Cache CPU memory used to create incredibly fast RAM disk

Why it matters: A RAM drive is traditionally conceived as a block of volatile memory "formatted" to be used as a secondary storage disk drive. RAM disks are extremely fast compared to HDDs or even ...
MUO on MSN

I stopped using background RAM optimizers — and here’s the exact reason they make things slower

That satisfying drop in memory usage was costing me speed.
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 ...
CSOonline

New Linux kernel cross-cache attack allows arbitrary memory writes

Researchers from the Graz University of Technology have discovered a way to convert a limited heap vulnerability in the Linux kernel into a malicious memory writes capability to demonstrate novel ...