RAM

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Close-up of a static random access memory chip mounted on a green printed circuit board.

semiconductor memory

A line graph showing the exponential increase in DRAM chip capacity from 4K bits in 1970 to 16M bits in 1990, with each new generation introduced about every three years.

RAM: Media

computing

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Close-up of a static random access memory chip mounted on a green printed circuit board.

Static random-access memory (SRAM) chip

SRAM is mainly used for small amounts of memory called registers and for “cache”...

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semiconductor memory

semiconductor memory

Types of random-access memory (RAM): (from top) DIP, SIPP, SIMM 30 pin, SIMM 72 pin,...

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A line graph showing the exponential increase in DRAM chip capacity from 4K bits in 1970 to 16M bits in 1990, with each new generation introduced about every three years.

The increasing capacity of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips

The memory capacity, given in bits per chip, has quadrupled for each new generation...

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