In technical terms, it manufactures and sells dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and NAND flash memory products.

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Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) prices are also heading up.

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Clear gainers include Intel, which produces 85% of all microprocessors, and the makers of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chips such as Japan's NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Samsung Electronics, LG Semicon and Hyundai Electronics.

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When your computer boots up, it spends an interminable amount of time heaving some 30 million lines of operating code from the hard drive onto its main memory, DRAM (dynamic random access memory).

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Samsung started mass production of the industry's most advanced mobile DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chip, only 10 months after it began producing the industry's first 30nm-class based 2GB LPDDR2 memory in October, 2011.

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Rambus claims Infineon is violating its patents on two kinds of computer memory, known as synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and Double-Data Rate DRAM (DDR).

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