Thanks For the Memories: Touring the Awesome Random Access of Old (hackaday.com)

szczys writes: The RAM we use today is truly amazing in all respects: performance, reliability, price; all have been optimized to the point you can consider memory a solved problem. Equally fascinating is the meandering path that we've taken over the last half century to get here. Drums, tubes, mercury delay lines, dekatrons, and core memory. They're still as interesting as the day electrons first ran through their circuits. Perhaps most amazing is the cost and complexity, both of which make you wonder how they ever manage to be used in production machines. But here's the clincher: despite being difficult and costly to manufacture, they were all very reliable.

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DRAM

[johnsmithperson123]

I suspect we may be nearing the end of DRAM, though only time will tell. DRAM is old and really a bottleneck these days, something is likely going to replace it. At the very least in the next few years the form factors will change from DIMMs to perhaps HBM stacked on-die and fiberoptic DIMMs. At least that would be my next guess, anyway.