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To put MU's 256Mb announcement in perspective take a look at Samsung's 1Gb announcement of last november:
Samsung Electronics opens up the gigabit generation - The World`s First
1G DRAM
November 4, 1996
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(SEOUL, Korea) - Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC) officially
announced today the successful development of a fully working die of
1-gigabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM). Samsung's 1G DRAM, the
first gigabit DRAM in the world, has 1,074,000,000 fully working cells.
The actual chip can store an amount of information equivalent to over
8,000 newspaper pages, 160 books (320,000 two-hundred-word pages), 400
still pictures or 16 hours of audio data.
sec.samsung.co.kr
for an overview of where the market is going and how the chips are made see
http.cs.berkeley.edu
for a presentation by one of Samsung's folks
and in the 64MB marketplace:
This New Offering Includes a x16 Configuration
IRVINE, Calif., May 23, 1996 -- Toshiba America Electronic Components,
Inc. (TAEC) today announced that Toshiba Corporation of Japan has
introduced its second generation 64 megabit (Mb) dynamic random access
memories (DRAMs).
The new 64Mb DRAMs, the TC5164 series, are a line-up of leading-edge
products offering high speed and low power consumption. The new devices
use Extended Data Out (EDO) achieving an access time of 40 nanoseconds
(ns), the world's fastest speed in this class of device, while
maintaining power consumption at a low level of 1cc1=100 milliamperes
(mA) operating at around 3.3 volts (V). Products are available in a
range of multibit-configurations: 16-megaword (M) x4-bit, 8M x8-bit and
4M x16-bit.
toshiba.com
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