Smartphones are starting to sport rather insane amounts of memory, up to 16GB in some places, but that still has nothing over RAM for PCs, servers, and HPCs. Memory in those computers number in three digits but are mostly limited by how much RAM chips can be fit in a module. If you can cram more RAM in a single stick, you can have more memory in the same amount of slots, and Samsung’s new 512GB DDR5 DRAM module definitely breaks the barriers not just in capacity or speed but in the technology used.
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