Processors need to be able to access data and instructions very quickly, so they can keep software zipping along. They also need to do this in a way that if it's randomly or unexpec… See more

We don't have access to the kind of tools that electronic engineers use to dig deep into their semiconductor creations, so we can't pull apart an actual DRAM chip and show you t… See more

All DRAM has a central I/O clock (input/output), a voltage that constantly changes between 2 levels, and this is used to organize everything that takes places in the memor… See more

DRAM performance is usually rated by the number of bits of data it can transfer per second. Earlier in this article, we saw that DDR4 used as system memory has 8 bit wide chips … See more

Unlike our other anatomy lessons, this one wasn't so messy – there's very little to take apart with DIMMs and specialized tools are needed for the modules. But that lack of guts and gi… See more