An advance in a speedy type of microchip could help engineers integrate computers’ short-term and long-term memory.
For all the recent advances in the speed of computers, their command centers remain relatively inefficient. A central processor does all the thinking and quickly stores a bunch of 1s and 0s on a chip called dynamic random access memory, or DRAM.
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