A modern high-end processor such as the Intel Core ... size and thus importance of this gap led to the migration of the basics of memory hierarchy into undergraduate courses in computer architecture, ...

As the most naturally quantitative of the computer architecture disciplines, memory hierarchy would seem to be less vulnerable ... tool to combat whatever memory delays are encountered in modern ...

Modern consumer laptops, tablets, and smartphones have on the order of a six-layer memory hierarchy, and managing memory smartly has never been as important to computer science as it is today.

“The motivation was trying to come up with a new memory hierarchy that could do object-based compression, instead of cache-line compression, because that’s how most modern programming languages manage ...