Random Access Memory (RAM) is hundreds/thousand times faster than hard disk. That is why server farms at Google, Yahoo, MSN, … are increasingly replacing hard disks by RAM for searches, database inquiries, telecommunication applications, ….
For any PC, a larger RAM space has higher impact on performance than CPU power but costing less. Today’s PC/notebook is equipped with doubled, tripled, or quadrupled amount of RAM space than 2 years ago even though the RAM module price has changed very little. And Microsoft’s new operating system Vista will have much higher requirement on RAM, too.
If you invested a thousand dollar in MU in 1990 at an adjusted price of 70 cents per share, you money became about seventy thousand dollars in a short period of 6 years when computer applications changed from TEXT oriented to GRAPHICS oriented. Now, starting from last or this year, the computer/web and IT applications have been experiencing another dramatic change from text/graphics/static web pages/applications to video centrical, which consumes and requires huge amount of memory space and bandwidth.
Is this the time to invest in and bet your farm on MU, again? |
