The Hewlett-Packard scientist behind the project, Phil Kuekes, said his next step would be to build a 16-bit memory chip in a tiny square--no more than 100 billionths of a meter inside.
Then, in 1969, when Intel was developing a 64-bit memory chip for Honeywell, Moore realized the key to getting the chip to function properly was to "dope" the chips with small amounts of impurities.
It'd pack 2, 688 shader units, a 384-bit memory bus and 6GB of RAM, all with one chip -- for reference, the GTX 690 needs two GPUs to offer 3, 072 shader units and has 4GB of RAM.
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For Toshiba's part, it's squeezed the lower-end ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470 into its 17-inch Satellite P305 and P305D laptops (pictured at right), with other "select" P305 models also getting the more powerful Mobility Radeon HD 3650 model, which boasts 120 stream processors, a 128-bit memory interface, and 512MB or 1GB of VRAM depending on the system.
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The new 32GB memory card incorporates 32Gb 3-bit NAND flash memory chips and a proprietary 3-bit NAND controller to deliver the high performance.
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And when we speak of Silicon Valley today, we are talking about their attitude, not the fact that they made 16K bit CMOS DRAM memory chips.
It seems clear that solid-state storage will have a growing role in personal computer architectures, although users needing more storage may find flash memory a bit expensive.
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Engineers found it too cumbersome to build a nonvolatile memory for each bit of information.
New York won the World Series in 2009, but that memory fades a bit more with each postseason flameout.
Hagel's first trip to Asia as Pentagon chief has been a bit of a walk down memory lane for the former infantry soldier.
While it's certainly tempting to wax philosophically about how Commodore has finally made the transition from 64KB of memory to 64-bit operating systems, the truth is that the company which just announced a line of boutique gaming PC's at CeBIT is far removed from the one that ruled the 80's and enhanced our droll elementary school days with some therapeutic Rampage.
And I want to take you down Memory Lane just a little bit to a year ago.
Its 1 megapixel camera is a bit slow, and the 50MB of memory constrains the phone from many video captures or Sprint music downloads over EV-DO.
Intel announced a new SATA interface enterprise solid state drive (SSD) that uses 25 nm multi-level cell flash memory (this is 2 bit per cell technology referred to as MLC).
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He says the debate is really around demand from the memory sector, with most bit growth forecasts at levels where there would be only upgrades of capacity, and not a lot of new capacity.
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The modems seemed a bit poky, and these machines don't have sufficient memory for much online gaming.
Perhaps the sole memory option (at 16 GB) is a bit weak, but microSD cards are supported for extra storage.
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The third layer uses TLC memory for capacity storage at a much lower price per bit.
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It was a bit of a surprise and this one will be plugged in the memory banks for years to come.
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He carried the baton a bit farther by looking at the biochemical changes involved in the formation of memory first (because such experiments are unethical in people) in sea slugs, and then in mice.
The basic requirements for running Windows 8 are a processor running at 1 gigahertz or faster, and at least 1 or 2 gigabytes of memory, depending on whether your PC is a less demanding 32-bit or more demanding 64-bit system (the installer tells you).
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Armed with your new knowledge about memory, you'll find some of the computer ads you see a bit less beguiling.
According to those familiar with the technology, the initial, primary use of 64-bit computing will be driving large, enterprise-level applications that require more than 4GB of memory -- applications most commonly found in large databases.
On that day my son Callum and I engaged in some father-son bonding by swapping the faulty motherboard on the family PC - the motherboard is the bit into which you plug all the other parts of a PC - processor, graphics card, memory et cetera.
Now it is up to customer demand to deliver those top-line numbers--in particular, demand for flash memory chips in advanced cell phones as well as strong sales of AMD's 64-bit Opteron processor for computer servers, due to launch on April 22.
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