Its speed makes the touch screen user interface incredibly responsive and intuitive and, more importantly, means that the 3D and memory-intensive graphic and video performance is unsurpassed.

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The SanDisk 2GB Rock Band 2 SD gaming card is the storage solution that Wii gamers have been looking for, allowing them to take advantage of Rock Band 2's memory-intensive features.

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Little argues that, because the memory industry is so capital intensive, only the richest firms can survive.

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The company is speeding up production of 64-megabit DRAMs, which are in great demand for computers hungry for memory to run graphics-intensive software.

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In a conversation with a fund manager I explained how many semiconductors (memory chips in particular) are capital-intensive commodities with a 2-year lag from the time a major capital investment is made to when it reaches full production capacity.

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Back in the day we were asking our PCs to do the heavy lifting of running those resource intensive client-server applications that required lots of memory, local hard drive space and processing power.

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"Dry farming" is labor intensive, but in the American West, plentiful, cheap water for irrigation is a distant memory.

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