Biggest RAM chips?

[Tin Gherdanarra]

Dear s.e.c.
I can't reliably find out what the state of the art in
RAM-chips is. I vaguely remember the announcements of
1 GBit-chips in 2000, but lost track of it since then.

If you know the state of the art, please let me know,
extra information whether the chip of size X is a commodity,
speciality item or lab prototype is very welcome
(Please don't start a flame war over this).

We still run on itsy-bitsy capacitors
refreshed by transistor-logic, do we?
(Wikipedia sez Nantero has nano-tube-RAM in the
lab).

Kind regards, thanks
Tin

 

[Mike Harrison]

Dear s.e.c.
I can't reliably find out what the state of the art in
RAM-chips is. I vaguely remember the announcements of
1 GBit-chips in 2000, but lost track of it since then.

If you know the state of the art, please let me know,
extra information whether the chip of size X is a commodity,
speciality item or lab prototype is very welcome
(Please don't start a flame war over this).

We still run on itsy-bitsy capacitors
refreshed by transistor-logic, do we?
(Wikipedia sez Nantero has nano-tube-RAM in the
lab).

Kind regards, thanks
Tin

Look at the biggest DIMM module you can buy, divide by the number of chips.

 

[Tin Gherdanarra]

Look at the biggest DIMM module you can buy, divide by the number of chips.

Uhm... am I supposed to guess around which word the
quotes belong? Or something?

 

[Staffan Höstman]

Now that was helpfull...

/s

Mike Harrison skrev:

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

Mike Harrison skrev:

Now that was helpfull...

/s

Actually, it was. Memory is increasing in size all the time, and it will
arrive on the street in modules before many people have a chance of getting
new chips any other way. You might see it announced in tech journals, but
unless you're privy to the kind that are mainly distrubuted to science
establishments and large firms, you'd pay more for a few months worth while
watching for the next big announcement, than you would on the RAM module,
possibly. In the end what matters is when they become commercially
available, so Mike Harrison's suggestion is a good one.

 

[Lostgallifreyan]

Another (free) way to get news of things like new types and sizes of memory
is to watch the forums/online shops of computer supplies for gamers,
they're usually keen to know, and as they put serious money out early in
the commercial life of a product, the industry has learned to release info
this way, as it helps them.

 

[Roger Hamlett]

Now that was helpfull...

It is just about the best way of finding the 'state of the art'.
The answer depends though on how fast you need the memory to be, and what
technology you have in mind. Gigabit DDR3 memories have just started
arriving. 2GByte chips exist in DDR2 from some manufacturers. Genuine
'static' memories stop at about 64Mbit. Graphic memories for video cards
are available up to about 512Mbit, while psuedo static chips are about one
generation behind (1GB max). In flash memories, 4GByte chips are now
coming available in mass quantities (makes 32GB flash cards possible).

Best Wishes