The large-scale growth of the electronics industry in the past decade has led to small-sized gadgets flooding the market. Initially, only Personal Computers (PC) employed the use of multi-core processing, however, now even small handheld gadgets have come to possess similar computational power as the PC and laptop. With mobile manufacturers opting for multicore processing and graphics-intensive application usage, memory storage and access has become a crucial aspect to achieve high performance.

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... In recent years, the memory subsystem is viewed as a bottleneck; drastically reducing performance speeds.