Computer memory stores information, such as data and programs, for immediate use in the computer. The term memory is often synonymous with the terms RAM...

the CPU and memory, while the latter performs arithmetic and logical operations on data. Without a significant amount of memory, a computer would merely...

Random-access memory (RAM; /ræm/) is a form of electronic computer memory that can be read and changed in any order, typically used to store working data...

form of a microprocessor, together with some type of computer memory, typically semiconductor memory chips. The processing element carries out arithmetic...

such as a hard disk drive, is referred to as paging or swapping. Computer memory is divided into pages so that information can be found more quickly...

was magnetic core memory. Central Processing Unit (CPU) The portion of a computer system that executes the instructions of a computer program. Contents: ...

Semiconductor memory is a digital electronic semiconductor device used for digital data storage, such as computer memory. It typically refers to devices...

switches, a stored-program computer loads its instructions into memory just like it loads its data into memory. As a result, the computer could be programmed...

the memory like an array endorsed by various programming languages. A digital computer's main memory consists of many memory locations. Each memory location...

In computer science, shared memory is memory that may be simultaneously accessed by multiple programs with an intent to provide communication among them...

users of a very large (main) memory". The computer's operating system, using a combination of hardware and software, maps memory addresses used by a program...

The memory cell is the fundamental building block of computer memory. The memory cell is an electronic circuit that stores one bit of binary information...

In computer organisation, the memory hierarchy separates computer storage into a hierarchy based on response time. Since response time, complexity, and...

Non-volatile memory (NVM) or non-volatile storage is a type of computer memory that can retain stored information even after power is removed. In contrast...

Memory management is a form of resource management applied to computer memory. The essential requirement of memory management is to provide ways to dynamically...

In computer operating systems, memory paging (or swapping on some Unix-like systems) is a memory management scheme by which a computer stores and retrieves...

memory is a form of random-access computer memory. It predominated for roughly 20 years between 1955 and 1975, and is often just called core memory,...

random-access memory (VRAM) is dedicated computer memory used to store the pixels and other graphics data as a framebuffer to be rendered on a computer monitor...

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices. Data stored in ROM cannot be electronically modified...

Volatile memory, in contrast to non-volatile memory, is computer memory that requires power to maintain the stored information; it retains its contents...

Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers. It was used in the UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer I) and the UNIVAC II, developed...

EDVAC were to be stored in high-speed computer memory rather than specified by the physical wiring of the computer. This overcame a severe limitation of...

including communication protocols. In most traditional computer architectures, the CPU and main memory tend to be tightly coupled, with the internal bus connecting...

and main memory. Multitasking automatically interrupts the running program, saving its state (partial results, memory contents and computer register contents)...

Error correction code memory (ECC memory) is a type of computer data storage that uses an error correction code (ECC) to detect and correct n-bit data...

1960s as computer memory. Many early computers, called drum computers or drum machines, used drum memory as the main working memory of the computer. Some...

that stores a memory address. This can be that of another value located in computer memory, or in some cases, that of memory-mapped computer hardware. A...

High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) is a computer memory interface for 3D-stacked synchronous dynamic random-access memory (SDRAM) initially from Samsung, AMD...

Delay-line memory is a form of computer memory, mostly obsolete, that was used on some of the earliest digital computers, and is reappearing in the form...

the main memory (colloquially called the "RAM") in modern computers and graphics cards (where the "main memory" is called the graphics memory). It is also...