Sensory memories are stored for a few seconds at most. They come from the five senses: hearing, vision, touch, smell, and taste. They are stored only for as long as the sense is being stimulated. They ...

Some researchers suggest these are not distinct types of memory, but rather stages of memory. In this view, memory begins in sensory memory, transitions to short-term memory, and then may move to long ...

In this interview, Arnaud Furnémont, vice president of R&D memory and compute at imec, reviews imec’s memory and storage roadmaps and explains how these respond to the industry’s need for ever more ...

After years of being offered as separate technologies, storage and memory are beginning to merge. It’s already happening, for example, with 3D Xpoint, a technology from Intel and Micron that can serve ...

The ascension of flash storage to mainstream datacentre technology status has brought with it questions about where and how exactly it can be used – and one of the big questions that comes up is over ...

A person’s memory is a sea of images and other sensory impressions, facts and meanings, echoes of past feelings, and ingrained codes for how to behave—a diverse well of information. Naturally, there ...