Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the malloc(way-to-much) dept.
An anonymous reader wrote in to say
"There is a story about 1 Gigabyte RAM-Modules from Samsung. Samsung finished development, shipping is due. They are going to use a 0.13-micron process. The article is in German, use Babelfish. "
Bits vs. Bytes, Chips vs. Modules
by
jurgen
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The article talks about a 1 GigaBIT chip. Modern dynamic RAM is always meassured in bits because the chips are bit-addressable and do not usually store a complete byte... instead, if you have 8 chips on a module, for example, of every byte one bit is stored in each chip. This news is remarkable for several reasons. One, currently the largest chips are 256Mb (lowercase b for bits) and two, they are using an 0.13 micron process, down from 0.18, which means they can get more chips out of a wafer and therefor prices will go down again. In other words, good news, Moore's law holds again, yawn.
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The article talks about a 1 GigaBIT chip. Modern dynamic RAM is always meassured in bits because the chips are bit-addressable and do not usually store a complete byte... instead, if you have 8 chips on a module, for example, of every byte one bit is stored in each chip. This news is remarkable for several reasons. One, currently the largest chips are 256Mb (lowercase b for bits) and two, they are using an 0.13 micron process, down from 0.18, which means they can get more chips out of a wafer and therefor prices will go down again. In other words, good news, Moore's law holds again, yawn.