This is enormously faster than conventional DRAM memory and is targeted initially for network switching application as well as high performance computing.

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Fearing a botched launch for Pentium 4 because of insufficient supplies of RDRAM, Intel has conceded in recent weeks that it will use other memory technologies like conventional SDRAM and possibly DDR as a memory option with Pentium 4.

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Secondly, Cisco Extended Memory technology allows each blade server in a cluster to support more than twice as much memory as a conventional two-socket server, which makes it easier to construct grids that process terabytes of data in memory.

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Rather than storing hundreds of target images in conventional, power-hungry electronic memory, they used a holographic memory.

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Like an iPad and the iPhone, the two notebooks rely on flash memory, rather than a conventional hard drive.

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Konstantin Likharev, at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, a co-inventor of the single-electron transistor, is working on ways to combine it with conventional transistors to make super-dense memory chips.

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That's the name of the product, which boasts a memory twice as big as that of conventional CDs.

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The product is meant to provide acceleration to a more conventional server and will probably compete with products rom Violin Memory and Texas Memory Systems.

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