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COMPUTER • MEMORY
REGISTERS <1ns · 1KB L1 / L2 / L3 CACHE SRAM · 1-20ns · MBs MAIN MEMORY (DRAM) 50-100ns · GBs SECONDARY STORAGE (NVMe / SSD / HDD) Milliseconds · Terabytes ▲ SPEED / COST ▲ CAPACITY (TBs)

CACHE MEMORY BRIDGES SPEED GAP BETWEEN CPU AND RAM

Built with ultra-fast Static RAM (SRAM), cache stores frequently accessed instructions and data to minimize CPU idle time.