Non-volatile memories are not the main memory (RAM) in computers, tablets and smartphones. However, they can be the main memory in devices such as sensors, industrial controls, point-of-sale terminals ...

Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies such ...

A computer that references memory on word boundaries. Word addressing applies to very early computers as the memory (RAM) in computers today addresses a single byte (see byte addressable). See word.