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cache memory

British

noun

computing a small area of memory in a computer that can be accessed very quickly

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Still, TurboQuant is only focused on key-value cache memory, a technique used for an AI model to “remember” data that it has processed so that it can respond quickly.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Newman noted Nvidia’s key-value cache memory system in its upcoming Vera Rubin AI platform as an example.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 14, 2026

Private browsing Web browsers store the information about browsing sessions—including pages visited as well as documents and images downloaded—in temporary cache memory to speed up the Web browsing experience.

From Scientific American • Sep. 3, 2013

They are cheaper and slower because they have less short-term cache memory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Loading a document into your browser's transient cache memory while reading it was said to be making a "copy."

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James

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