About four years ago, the Rowhammer vulnerability in DRAM memory chips emerged. It came about by "hammering" -- many reads or write access -- a particular memory location causing a bit to change state ...

Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, has a history of posting angry rants on various topics. Several of them have been directed at Intel, like when he ripped the company a new one after what he felt ...

Today, one of the Dell T5500 workstations I purchased arrived in the mail. I installed some non-ECC memory (as the former web page and the service manual specify that both ECC and non-ECC are ...

Intel stripped ECC RAM support off its consumer products over a decade ago, and Linus Torvalds is still unhappy about it. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X (opens in a new window) ...

When I built a NAS a few years back I used the then-slightly-out-of-date i3 8100 quad core CPU, more than enough oomph for NAS stuff but has the benefit of supporting ECC memory as well, on the right ...

This theoretical security problem is becoming all too real. Expect to see a major Rowhammer security exploit within the next year as attackers tap GPUs, FPGAs and more to accelerate the process.

NVIDIA has just introduced its new RTX 2000E Ada workstation graphics card, featuring a single-slot design and 16GB of GDDR6 memory with ECC support. The company unveiled its new RTX 2000 Ada ...