IBM has announced a new method for putting memory on a chip that according to the company will enhance the performance of the chip.
IBM has commented that it plans to use DRAM instead of the conventional SRAM as the cache memory on the chips.
This change means that the chip will be able to store its data in one-third the area and use one-fifth the electricity for standby power.
Till now all the processors have a cache memory that is directly integrated onto the chip and it relocates data according to its usage. Since processors are getting smaller and smaller, the SRAM is having a hard time to cope up.
Designers now believe that using DRAM instead of SRAM might solve the problem as DRAM requires a far less number of processors.
Researchers were working on a technique to use DRAM with silicon-on-insulator technology.
Now with this improved technique IBM plans to double the processor performance beyond the point that classical scaling can achieve.
Via: pcmag
