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 ...

The memory address of your mouse is the IRQ number assigned to the device. IRQ, which stands for Interrupt Request, is the signal that the mouse sends to the computer to alert the computer of its ...

A computer that relies on fungal mycelium to store information could one day be a low-cost alternative to the current ...

With transistors and logic gates as our basic building blocks, we can begin to construct the actual circuits that make up computer memory. One of the simplest memory circuits is the AND gate, which ...

Scientists transform grocery store mushrooms into working computer memory chips that switch electrical states 5,850 times per ...

Cambridge scientists have developed a new prototype for computer memory that could make for faster chips that could hold up to 100 times more data. The system is made up of barium bridges between ...