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silicon that forgets on purpose or remembers forever, and charges you for the difference.
means integrated circuits that store binary data, split mainly into volatile RAM that vanishes on power-off and non-volatile flash that keeps data without power.
from traces to 1970 when intel's 1103 dram chip replaced clunky magnetic core memory, kicking off a shrink-and-scale race that's run for over fifty years.
price warsdram prices have crashed and spiked in brutal boom cycles
three playerssamsung, sk hynix, micron control most of global supply
stacking trickmodern chips stack layers vertically to cheat physical limits
korea's economychips are south korea's single largest export category
for instance
intel 1103 — 1970 dram chip that killed magnetic core memory
samsung v-nand — stacks over 200 layers in a single flash chip
micron hbm3 — powers ai accelerators like nvidia's h100 gpus
toshiba nand — fujio masuoka invented flash memory there in 1980