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Samsung Develops New Memory Chip: PRAM Promised to be 30 Times Faster

Posted By Brad On September 11, 2006 @ 5:31 pm In BESComputers.net | No Comments

Samsung on Monday unveiled a new type of memory chip that it said will allow digital devices to work faster by saving new data more quickly. The phase-change random access memory, or PRAM, chip is nonvolatile, meaning it will retain data even when an electronic device is turned off, and is about 30 times faster than conventional flash memory.

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