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> But memory has felt like an exception to Moore’s Law for a while, at least in practice.

That's because it is. Memory is failing to scale. That's why there's so much investment in alternative memory technologies, including why Intel sunk so much money into 3D XPoint despite the losses. But the market is brutally optimized, hence the difficulty cracking it.



SRAM cells need 6 transistors. DRAM cells need a transistor and a capacitor.

6 transistors aren't dense, so are capacitors in integrated circuits. Comparatively with NAND, it only needs one (floating gate) transistor.

Samsung is working on 3D-stacked DRAM cells: https://www.i-micronews.com/samsung-electronics-gearing-up-t...




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