MetaRAM quadruples memory capacity and reduces prices by up to 90 percent overnight
San Jose-based company MetaRAM has achieved something that none of us expected. They have accelerated memory technology development by 2-4 years with their new DIMMs while being able to offer them at a much cheaper price.
How did they do it? MetaRAM has created a chipset which allows up to four times more mainstream DRAMs to be integrated into an existing stick of memory while fooling the computer into thinking it’s just one big piece.
For example, a 1GB DRAM is much cheaper than a 2GB one, and the new chipset allows manufacturers to just use two of the 1GB DRAMs instead of the 2GB one for a huge cost reduction. Now think of that on a massive scale: MetaRAM is advertising that you can put a quarter-terabyte (256GB) of memory into a server at as little as 10% of the cost. “That’s insane,” you say. “Why didn’t I think of that?” Well, we’re with you on that one.
The technology seems absolutely brilliant, and it’s a wonder why no one has thought of it before. Hopefully MetaRAM can lower the prices on consumer memory as well so we can start seeing mainstream computers with 16GB or 32GB of memory.
Read the press release here [pdf].
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