Talk:Content-addressable memory/Archive 1

Merge Associative memory
There is an article on Associative memory which I believe is the same concept as Content-addressable memory, and this article is better. I propose a merger with this article remaining. Gerry Ashton 14:54, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I have merged Associative memory and Associative storage into this article. Gerry Ashton 17:14, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

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Are CAMs *currently* used for networking applications?
The article says that CAM is frequently used in networking devices, but I haven't been able to confirm that this is currently the case. I found press releases about a handful of Cypress TCAM chips in the 2002-2005 era, implemented in a 180 nm process and holding 1M entries. However, in searching for the current state of the art, I don't find any recent products.

Was that technological path abandoned? A few alternatives would be that they've been integrated into other chips instead of being sold stand-alone, that they go by another name, or that networking companies prefer to implement CAMs on FPGAs. I couldn't find evidence for those possibilities, though. 198.161.100.138 (talk) 19:49, 10 October 2019 (UTC)


 * These are currently used in the hardware forwarding information base in switches and routers. The memory is not a separate chip but now integrated in the ASICs used in this equipment. ~Kvng (talk) 13:33, 13 October 2019 (UTC)