System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designers have a problem, a big problem in fact, Random Access Memory (RAM) is slow, too slow, it just can’t keep up. So they came up with a workaround and it is called cache ...

In a computer, the entire memory can be separated into different levels based on access time and capacity. Figure 1 shows different levels in the memory hierarchy. Smaller and faster memories are kept ...

For interest's sake I've included the memory bandwidth results here for Kaby Lake-R, which are slightly improved on Kaby Lake thanks to DDR4-2400 support. Core i7-6500U 324 MB/s 149 MB/s 92 MB/s Core ...