RESEARCH PAPER: Optimizing Memory with ZeroPoint Technologies

By Matt Kimball, Patrick Moorhead - July 15, 2024

How ZeroPoint IP Drives Energy-Efficient Performance While Lowering TCO

Data drives the modern business. While this has always been true, it has perhaps never been more relevant. Data is generated everywhere and at all times, feeding AI models and analytics engines to help organizations do more and do it faster.

The requirement to do more faster is coupled with the requirement to drive down costs. While C-level executives are pressured to reduce time to value, there is an equal and seemingly contradictory requirement to lower costs, all while harnessing the potential in the unprecedented amounts of data being generated, collected, and trained.

One of the main factors limiting data-hungry workloads from performing faster is a server’s memory architecture. Current memory architecture has lagged innovation, resulting in significant latency and power consumption. In the broader picture, memory — one of the largest server cost elements — levies a power and performance tax.

This research brief will detail the challenges in data-driven enterprises, including how ineffective memory management costs directly and indirectly burden modern businesses. Further, it will explore some industry initiatives and look at how companies like ZeroPoint have developed technologies that help drive greater efficiencies that can lead to unprecedented performance gains, considerable total cost of ownership (TCO) savings, and untapped revenue opportunities.

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Optimizing Memory with ZeroPoint Technologies

Table of Contents

  • Situational Analysis
  • The Challenge: Performance, Efficiency, Cost
    • The Inefficiencies of Memory
  • Memory Optimization: Is Compression the Answer?
  • ZeroPoint — Differentiated IP and Memory Optimization
    • What is Expansion?
    • Differentiated IP Stems from a Differentiated Team
  • Summary

Companies Cited:

  • ZeroPoint Technologies
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI)
  • International Energy Agency (IEA)
  • Meta
  • Google
Matt Kimball
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Matt Kimball is a Moor Insights & Strategy senior datacenter analyst covering servers and storage. Matt’s 25 plus years of real-world experience in high tech spans from hardware to software as a product manager, product marketer, engineer and enterprise IT practitioner.  This experience has led to a firm conviction that the success of an offering lies, of course, in a profitable, unique and targeted offering, but most importantly in the ability to position and communicate it effectively to the target audience.

Patrick Moorhead

Patrick founded the firm based on his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Ten years later, Patrick is ranked #1 among technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (ARInsights)  in “press citations” (Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor at Forbes and frequently appears on CNBC. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the cloud, enterprise SaaS, collaboration, client computing, and semiconductors. He has 30 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD) leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.