Neowin News Feed for: Cache

Alleged Intel "Zen 5 killer" Nova Lake specs suggest AMD's hardest battle could be coming up

Sayan Sen — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:54:01 +0000

Alleged Intel Nova Lake-S performance and specifications reveal a massive cache design that could outperform potentially rival and beat AMD processors. Read more...

Intel Nova Lake alleged performance shows massive improvement, could answer AMD 3D V-cache

Sayan Sen — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 21:40:01 +0000

Intel's official performance claims have allegedly leaked. Apparently, there could be a massive improvement thanks to more cores and a new 3D cache, similar to AMD's. Read more...

Microsoft follows Google's footsteps, removes cache links from Bing search results

Sagar Naresh Bhavsar — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 15:10:01 +0000

Microsoft Bing, after Google Search, has dropped support for cached links and cache operator support in search results. Read more...

Microsoft Research unveils Garnet which makes apps and services quicker

Paul Hill — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 03:42:01 +0000

Microsoft has open sourced a new cache-store solution to make services and applications faster. Microsoft has deployed it in a few places and third-party developers can get it on GitHub. Read more...

Google has officially removed the Cached web page feature from its search results

John Callaham — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 14:28:01 +0000

Google has confirmed that it will no longer have a Cached feature for websites in its search results, claiming that the feature is no longer needed due to improvements in internet website loading. Read more...

Nvidia quietly confirms the RTX 4070 Super is even better than it first showed

Sayan Sen — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 15:34:01 +0000

Nvidia released its RTX 4070 Super GPU, alongside the two other cards, the 4080 Super and the 4070 Ti Super. However, it had undersold the GPU at its launch due to a wrong specification. Read more...

Microsoft brings big Windows WSL upgrade with better memory, disk, network management

Sayan Sen — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 22:14:01 +0000

The Windows Subsystem for Linux has received a new update today. The new release brings several interesting features that upgrade memory and disk management, as well as networking improvements. Read more...

Microsoft shares workaround for Outlook's slow startup or fail due to OST sync bug

Sayan Sen — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:34:01 +0000

Microsoft has shared a workaround for an issue where Outlook for Microsoft 365 would be stuck on the startup screen for a while, and on some occasions, it would entirely fail to launch. Read more...

Unlike Windows 11, older AMD Ryzen will be supported and get performance boost on Linux

Sayan Sen — Fri, 02 Jun 2023 21:44:01 +0000

Unlike Microsoft's Windows 11, next-gen Linux will not only support older AMD Ryzen processors, but they could even get some decent performance boosts too. This is suggested by a recent patch. Read more...

Intel working on new Meteor Lake L4 cache for faster next-gen Windows, Linux, Chrome booting

Sayan Sen — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:28:01 +0000

Intel is making a new L4 cache specifically designed for improving boot times on its next-gen Meteor Lake processors. This means we could expect faster booting on next-gen Windows 11, and more. Read more...

Chrome 96 is rolling out with faster page navigation cache and PNG metadata in Clipboard

Usama Jawad — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:14:46 +0000

Chrome 96 is rolling out today with some performance improvements in page navigation and retention of PNG metadata in clipboard. It also faces some pushback from the Safari WebKit team. Read more...

Your Ryzen-based Windows 11 PCs could be snappier with new StoreMI 2.1.0.205

Sayan Sen — Fri, 12 Nov 2021 05:02:01 +0000

AMD's SSD caching technology dubbed StoreMI has received its latest update today. The new version 2.1.0.205 brings Windows 11 support which means it may work better with Ryzen-based Windows 11 PCs. Read more...

Google is going to offer checking accounts to customers from next year

Paul Hill — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 14:30:01 +0000

Google is preparing a new project called Cache which will allow customers to set up checking accounts with the firm. Google is partnering with Citigroup to offer customers an account. Read more...

Intel unveils its affordable "premium class" Optane Memory module

Florin Bodnarescu — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:48:01 +0000

Intel has announced its Optane Memory module, an affordable M.2 SSD intended for use as a cache drive in conjunction with SATA storage devices. Available in 16GB and 32GB variants starting April 24. Read more...

After less than five months, Microsoft Garage retires Cache

Rich Woods — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 22:44:01 +0000

Even though the Microsoft Garage app only launched last August, Cache is now being retired by the division of Microsoft, citing the fact that "all Garage projects are experiments by definition". Read more...

Microsoft Garage launches new set of incubator apps

Justin Luna — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:44:01 +0000

Microsoft's Garage division has unveiled five new incubator consumer apps. They are currently under testing, and anyone who wants to help test them can do so by signing up on the website. Read more...

Microsoft Garage formally announces Cache

Rich Woods — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 23:28:01 +0000

Microsoft today announced its latest Garage project called Cache, which is designed to help users "bookmark the stuff important to you". Users can sign up to download the app now. Read more...

YouTube videos now cached by browsers

James Hall — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:53:19 +0000

In the past people with slow connections who tried to watch YouTube videos often had their patience tested. Playback often caught up with the buffer, leading to annoying pauses--and leading many to give up entirely... Read more...

DTS Unveils HD with DDR-RAM Cache

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 17:55:13 +0000

Japanese electronics firm DTS has put a slight twist on the hybrid hard drive concept. Instead of putting NAND flash memory into the drives, the company has instead opted to use DDR-SDRAM sticks, claiming the... Read more...

Flash cache to earn big bucks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 13:22:16 +0000

New PCs that start up almost instantly could take 40 per cent of the market by 2008, boosting sales of the Flash memory chips that drive them. The fast-booting PCs could account for as much... Read more...

Intel Preps 3.50GHz Server Chips with 8MB Cache

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:20:31 +0000

Leading chipmaker Intel Corp. has unwrapped some of its plans concerning the server and workstation processors and chipsets. The main headliners of Intel's pedestal and rack server roadmap – Intel Xeon MP processor code-named Potomac... Read more...

AMD Athlon 64 3000+ with 512KB Cache For Sale in $200 Range

Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:23:30 +0000

Yet unannounced microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices – AMD Athlon 64 3000+ – have shown up in various stores all around the world. The chips, however, do not feature the same specifications as their predecessors... Read more...

Intel to Launch Pentium 4 Processors with 1MB of Cache

Fri, 10 Oct 2003 17:23:41 +0000

There are unofficial claims that Intel will add Pentium 4 processors with 1MB of cache into its product lineup later this year. Because of dramatic problems with 90nm Strained Silicon technology we reported about on... Read more...

Xeon vs Opteron: Memories Of The cache battle?

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 01 Aug 2003 09:11:45 +0000

THE MOST OFTEN cited aspect of the competition between Intel Xeon and AMD Opteron is the extra 64-bitness of the AMD platform, at a price competitive with the Xeons. Fine, yes, Opteron extends the X86... Read more...

Intel's new Xeon processor features 1Mbyte of L3 cache

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 02:15:17 +0000

Intel Corp. Monday introduced a new Xeon processor for dual processor servers and workstations . The MPUs feature 1Mbyte L3 cache, double the on-die cache of previous Xeon chips. The new processor has 3.06MHz frequency... Read more...

IBM "G3" hits 1.1GHz, has 1MB L2 cache

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 06:09:37 +0000

IBM says it will begin sampling its new IBM PowerPC 750GX microprocessor next month, the next generation of the "G3" processor. Based on the PowerPC 750FX processor, the new chip uses IBM's advanced 0.13-micron copper... Read more...

Intel notebook Celerons to have 1MB cache

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 06 Jun 2003 16:03:58 +0000

WHILE THE PENTIUM III-M is now, sadly, a goner, the son of the Pentium III-M, the Pentium M, will get to 2GHz sometime next year, although frequency is not a factor in Intel's calculations. But... Read more...

AMD, Compaq and a 512K cache

Thu, 11 Apr 2002 03:18:14 +0000

We hung round waiting for the appropriate authorities at AMD to get back to us about the Compaq notebook with apparently 512K cache that AMD Zone wrote about yesterday. But the authorities are... Read more...

Cache Corruption on Microsoft DNS Servers

Sat, 01 Sep 2001 22:13:35 +0000

NTCompatible had this up on their site. Cache Corruption on Microsoft DNS Servers Release Date: August 31, 2001 Systems Affected Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000... Read more...