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Windows 11's memory compression is often overlooked, but you might want to enable it

Windows 11 has a habit of doing things quietly in the background and then getting blamed for them later. Memory compression is one of those features. It sounds like a gimmick and immediately gets ...
Hackaday

Surviving The RAM Price Squeeze With Linux In-Kernel Memory Compression

You’ve probably heard — we’re currently experiencing very high RAM prices due mostly to increased demand from AI data centers. Ubuntu users should check out ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Freeing Up Near-Memory Capacity For Cache Using Compression Techniques In A Flat Hybrid-Memory Architecture

A technical paper titled “HMComp: Extending Near-Memory Capacity using Compression in Hybrid Memory” was published by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology and ZeroPoint Technologies.
Opinion

RAM is getting expensive, so squeeze the most from it

Zram versus zswap – two ways to get a quart into a pint pot Linux has two ways to do memory compression – zram and zswap – but you rarely hear about the second. The Register compares and contrasts ...
Electronic Design

Hardware Compression Works at the Memory Cache Level

How lossless data compression can reduce memory and power requirements. How ZeroPoint’s compression technology differs from the competition. One can never have enough memory, and one way to get more ...