Apple has publicly touted a significant new feature in OS X 10.9 Mavericks designed to maximize RAM, storage and CPU use while also boosting power efficiency: Compressed Memory. The new Compressed ...

A new feature in Apple's upcoming OS X is reminiscent of a past technology for enhancing RAM use in Macs. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt ...

For most of Mac history using the standard memory configuration meant a world of hurt. The machine would boot and work well - usually - with one app at a time, but open a few Safari tabs, Mail, a ...

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh and NVIDIA have introduced a new method that helps large language models reason ...

Video compression has become an essential technology to meet the burgeoning demand for high‐resolution content while maintaining manageable file sizes and transmission speeds. Recent advances in ...

Content-addressable-memory (CAM) technology, traditionally targeted at high-speed lookups for packet classification, represents a key element in the acceleration of lossless compression.

Compression algorithms are not really new, so I've looked cautiously at the work of U.S. computer scientists claiming that 'they have developed technology that doubles the usable memory on cell phones ...

With people on the internet insisting that M1 Macs run well with minimal RAM (and the standard configs being minimal), I was wondering if anyone has a detailed explanation on how memory compression on ...

Phone smooth performance stays fluid with less RAM thanks to iOS RAM optimization, tight hardware integration, and smarter ...

Encoding the contents of memory to take up less space. Similar to data compression, memory compression works with the live contents of memory as it executes instructions and processes data. It works ...

The inner workings of Windows 11 can sometimes be a mystery to a lot of people, and it's easy to ignore the fact that some of the features enabled by default can actually hurt your experience. One of ...