So it’s good news that scientists in Switzerland are working on racetrack memory, shock-proof memory that they say is 100,000 times faster and consumes less power than current hard disks.

CUDIMM is the latest development in RAM technology, and it comes with some exciting upgrades of standard UDIMM memory.

HBM explained: Can stacked memory give AMD the edge it needs? HBM brings a huge 1024-bit-wide bus with 512GB/sec on tap, plus lower power usage.