The disparity between the speed of the CPU and memory (RAM). Although CPU clock speeds are forever increasing, memory response time has not kept up the same accelerated pace. See compute-in-memory ...

The term “memory wall” was first coined in the 1990s to describe memory bandwidth bottlenecks that were holding back CPU performance. The semiconductor industry helped address this memory wall ...

Professor Shahar Kvatinsky from the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering has dedicated the past few years to finding solutions to “the memory wall problem”—the ...