A place to park data coming from slow memory so that you can access it quickly. It’s built with SRAMStands for "static random access memory." This is also temporary memory in a computer. It's very fast compared to other kinds of memory, but it's also very expensive and burns a lot of energy, so you don't have nearly so much. memory, but it’s organized so that you can figure out which parts haven’t been used in a while so that they can be replaced with new cached items. Also, if you make a change to cached data, that change has to make its way back into the original slow storageThis usually refers to memory that doesn't lose its contents when powered off - like a thumb drive or a hard disk. It's a place to store data..