Then this is applied to the holographic memory, which contains transformed target images, each written into the memory using a different reference beam.

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If any of these targets matches the video frame, the corresponding reference beam is emitted by the memory, and picked up by a detector.

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"Any accomplishment was important only as a reference point for future improvement, not as a pleasurable memory to dwell on, " he writes.

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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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Now, perhaps, the memory of his life can serve as a light for others, as a point of reference on our horizons.

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For the hardware geeks out there, here's the reference design, which seems to indicate some future models "could" support removable memory for loading in and getting data off of PMCs.

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