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dynamic RAM
- A memory chip that stores information as electrical charges in capacitors. Each bit of information is stored by a single capacitor, representing binary 1 with a full charge, and 0 with no charge. Since the charges in the capacitors tends to fade quickly, the value of each bit is dynamically read off at regular intervals, and the charge is refreshed if necessary.
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Work at America鈥檚 research universities led to the first magnetic core random access memory, a predecessor to dynamic RAM, and to lithium ion batteries.
But 32-bit will eventually run into a bottleneck for applications needing more than 4GB dynamic RAM memory.
Thus one reader gave the example of failed efforts to retain 鈥渢he secret sauce鈥 in the case of dynamic RAM.
As the overseas manufacturers ramped up their dynamic RAM capability, they discovered and developed techniques for manufacturing that made them cheaper and more reliable 鈥 techniques that weren鈥檛 shared with the American companies.
Improved process technology for dynamic RAM also made better, faster, more reliable microprocessors with higher yields, and the American companies that weren鈥檛 keeping up with process improvements couldn鈥檛 continue to compete.
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