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===Recent developments===
* In early 2008, a [[Linux]] project named [[zram]] (originally called compcache) was released; in a 2013 update, it was incorporated into [[Chrome&nbsp;OSChromeOS]]<ref name="zram-google-page"/> and [[Android (operating system)|Android]]&nbsp;4.4
* In 2010, IBM released Active Memory Expansion (AME) for [[AIX]] 6.1 which implements virtual memory compression.<ref name="IBM-AIX-AME"/>
* In 2012, some versions of the [[POWER7]]+ chip included AME hardware accelerators using the [[842 (compression algorithm)|842 compression algorithm]] for data compression support, used on AIX, for virtual memory compression.<ref name="IBM-POWER7+"/> More recent POWER processors continue to support the feature.