There's memory, measured mostly in megabytes or occasionally gigabytes of RAM (random access memory).
In technical terms, it manufactures and sells dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and NAND flash memory products.
Everspin makes a type called MRAM (magnetoresistive random access memory), which uses magnetic properties to store data.
It also makes cellular phones and the crucial SRAM (synchronous random access memory chips) that are used inside them.
Tests now under way at Motorola and elsewhere suggest that a one-size-fits-all memory chip is emerging: MRAM (magnetic random access memory).
The laptop comes with 64M bytes of SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) and Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 operating system preinstalled.
The Whirlwind Project conceived the technique of stringing the cores onto a matrix of wires and thus producing a random access memory.
Micron Technology is a manufacturer and marketer of semiconductor devices, primarily dynamic random access memory for PCs and mobile devices, NAND Flash and NOR memory.
But prices of DRAMs (dynamic random access memory chips) have continued to fall and there are few signs of demand picking up any time soon.
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).
Micron Technology is a manufacturer and marketer of memory products, primarily dynamic random access memory for PCs and mobile devices, NAND Flash and NOR Flash memory products.
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Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) prices are also heading up.
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Since its founding in 2005 the company has created 15 subsidiary companies based on technology like magnetoresistive random access memory from New York University and a salt-intake monitoring system from Cornell University.
Tests now under way at Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people ) and elsewhere suggest that a one-size-fits-all memory chip is emerging: MRAM, for magnetic random access memory.
And while DRAM is strong enough to handle complex software, it's slow: When the PC needs to crunch numbers, it must resort to far faster memory cache, also called SRAM (static random access memory).
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).
And AgigA Tech makes so-called non-volatile Random Access Memory (RAM) that helps people store and retrieve rapidly changing data far more quickly than the slow-poke disk drive technology that keeps data centers humming.
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.
And while DRAM is strong enough to handle complex software, it ain't so swift: When the PC needs to crunch numbers, it must resort to far faster memory cache, also called SRAM (static random access memory).
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.
The day before the official start of the conference, Skyera, a company offering a all solid state primary storage system announced that it was partnering with Everspin to provide MRAM (Magnetic Random Access Memory) as part of its offering.
In perhaps the best-known example of standards abuse, Rambus was accused by the Federal Trade Commission of helping to develop standards for dynamic random access memory chips without disclosing the fact it held patents on key parts of the technology.
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At present Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ) and other producers of dynamic random access memory chips for computers--one of the most competitive industries on the planet--are confronted with charges from the Justice Department that imply all three pricing offenses at once.
TOKYO-Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced that the company has developed a prototype memory element for a spin transfer torque magnetoresistive random access memory (STT-MRAM) that achieves the world's lowest1 power consumption yet reported, indicating that it has the potential to surpass the power consumption efficiency of SRAM as cache memory.
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PUFs rely on the physical characteristics of SRAM (static random-access memory) technology.
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The solid- state drive (SSD) capacity and random-access memory (RAM) in the base configuration of the Modbook Pro are also being doubled.
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After all, random-access memory (RAM) is just like a bunch of light switches, and when they all go off, the data is gone.
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Most recently, stiff competition and the rising cost of improving chips has made it even harder for surviving makers of dynamic random-access memory, the chips known as DRAMs that are used to store data in personal computers and server systems.
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