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

MIT researchers developed Attention Matching, a KV cache compaction technique that compresses LLM memory by 50x in seconds — ...
EDN

Last-level cache has become a critical SoC design element

LLC, positioned between external memory and internal subsystems, stores frequently accessed data close to compute resources.
EDN

Efficient checks for cache-coherency verification in complex SoCs

Cache, in its crude definition, is a faster memory which stores copies of data from frequently used main memory locations. Nowadays, multiprocessor systems are supporting shared memories in hardware, ...
Ars Technica

Cache and memory in the many-core era

One of the greatest challenges facing the designers of many-core processors is resource contention. The chart below visually lays out the problem of resource contention, but for most of us the idea is ...
Hackaday

Spectre And Meltdown: How Cache Works

The year so far has been filled with news of Spectre and Meltdown. These exploits take advantage of features like speculative execution, and memory access timing. What they have in common is the fact ...
PC World

How does CPU memory cache work?

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 ...
Electronic Design

Adding Cache to IPs and SoCs

Cache memory significantly reduces time and power consumption for memory access in systems-on-chip. Technologies like AMBA protocols facilitate cache coherence and efficient data management across CPU ...
Android Authority

What is cache memory - Gary explains

System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers have a problem, a big problem in fact, Random Access Memory (RAM) is slow, too slow, it just can’t keep up. So they came up with a workaround and it is called cache ...
GIGAZINE

An expert explains in an easy-to-understand way what CPU cache memory is

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 ...
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 ...
Houston Chronicle

How Important Is a Processor Cache?

In the early days of computing, everything ran quite a bit slower than what we see today. This was not only because the computers' central processing units – CPUs – were slow, but also because ...