It is hard to imagine what a mainframe or supercomputer can do when we all have what amounts to supercomputers on our desks. But if you look at something like IBM’s mainframe Telum chip, you’ll get ...
For about four years now, AMD has offered special “X3D” variants of its high-end desktop processors with an extra 64MB of L3 ...
AMD is expanding its Zen 5 desktop processor lineup with the introduction of the Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Dual Edition, a 16-core CPU ...
When talking about CPU specifications, in addition to clock speed and number of cores/threads, ' CPU cache memory ' is sometimes mentioned. Developer Gabriel G. Cunha explains what this CPU cache ...
Google has published TurboQuant, a KV cache compression algorithm that cuts LLM memory usage by 6x with zero accuracy loss, ...
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 ...