Next-generation memory chips from NEC

17 Jun 2002

Calling its new 4-gigabit dynamic random access memory (DRAM) chip the largest yet developed, NEC says the new chip can store more than 4 billion bits of information -- enough to hold 47 minutes of full-motion video, or 256 times the capacity of the 16-megabit DRAM chip now commonly used. NEC says it will begin selling the 4-billion bit chips around 2000.