Article: IBM claims to double memory for Intel servers.(Company Business and Marketing)

IBM's research group Monday unveiled a new technology that it said could effectively double the amount of memory in servers based on Intel processors.

Dubbed IBM Memory Expansion Technology, or MXT, the technology could help ISPs and large corporations save millions of dollars in memory costs, according to IBM. MXT may eventually be used in personal computers and handheld devices, but will be used initially in industry-standard, Intel-based servers such as IBM's Netfinity, the company said.

MXT makes use of a new cache memory design that allows data to be stored and manipulated in a computer more efficiently, IBM said. Cache memory refers to a kind of ...

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