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.
Semiconductor Engineering

An Energy-Efficient DRAM Cache Architecture for Mobile Platforms With PCM-Based Main Memory

“A long battery life is a first-class design objective for mobile devices, and main memory accounts for a major portion of total energy consumption. Moreover, the energy consumption from memory is ...
TechRepublic

Design of Cache Memory with Cache Controller Using VHDL

The authors report on the design of efficient cache controller suitable for use in FPGA-based processors. Semiconductor memory which can operate at speeds comparable with the operation of the ...
The Next Platform

Skimpy HBM Memory Opens Up The Way For AI Inference Memory Godbox

Generative AI is arguably the most complex application that humankind has ever created, and the math behind it is incredibly complex even if the results are simple enough to understand. GenAI also it ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Balancing Memory And Coherence: Navigating Modern Chip Architectures

In the intricate world of modern chip architectures, the “memory wall” – the limitations posed by external DRAM accesses on performance and power consumption growing slower than the ability to compute ...
Ars Technica

What happened to the L1 Cache in the Pentium 4?

I was checking out the specs at intel.com and noticed that the P4 has something called "12K µops L1 Execution Trace Cache" which is "8KB L1 data cache" <BR>The Pentium III has 32K L1 Cache (16K for ...