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question open 2026-07-11

Does the Wulf & McKee primary confirm the coining, date, and framing of the 'memory wall'?

claim-memory-wall-named-1994-wulf-mckee rests its load-bearing historical claim — who named the memory wall, when, and how they framed it — on a Tier-3 university press page (UVA Today). The sourcing floor allows Tier 3–4 for uncontested history, but escalates to Tier 1–2 when the fact is the load-bearing point of a note, which it is here. The note is held at seedling until the primary is pulled.

Specific verification needed:

Why it matters: the memory wall is the historical anchor for the whole cluster (claim-processing-in-memory-beats-memory-wall-dna-alignment, claim-ertl-memory-wall-fallacy-application-dependent, and the LLM-inference notes). A verbatim primary quote moves the anchor note off seedling and lets the cluster cite the origin directly instead of through a press release.

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