Today's PCs can accept up to 16 GB of RAM, and even the older machines can take up to 1 GB. This was not very useful information back in the Stone Age of, say, 1997, because back then, a RAM ...

Shifting design philosophy has lead to many innovations in laptops in terms of size and weight, but that's come at a cost of ...

We continue our series on building a workstation with another highly important component, memory. How do you choose what to buy? Of all the components of a computer, memory is the one which has ...

There’s an apocryphal quote floating around the internet that “640K ought to be enough memory for anybody” but it does seem unlikely that this was ever actually said by any famous computer moguls of ...

A computer's maximum supported system memory, or RAM, is contingent on the processor, the operating system and the motherboard. These three factors provide hardware and software limitations that ...

Personal computers still eat up the lion's share of memory modules, but demand from makers of networking and telecommunications gear has begun to fragment the module market. Developers of high-speed, ...

In recent years we’ve seen a growing number of PC makers adopt LPDDR memory for thin and light laptops and mini PCs, where space is at a premium. But since that memory is fixed to the motherboard, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marco Chiappetta is a technologist who covers semiconductors and AI. When 3D Xpoint memory technology was first announced by Intel ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior editor and founding member of The Verge who covers gadgets, games, and toys. He spent 15 years ...