The Explosive Evolution Of Computer Memory

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The Explosive Evolution Of Computer Memory

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From tiny clown car to rocket-powered death machine in just two generations. The evolution of RAM is basically hardware's version of "how it started vs how it's going."

Computer memory went from "barely fits a browser tab" to "could probably simulate the entire universe if you asked nicely." At this rate, DDR6 will just be a black hole that sucks your wallet into another dimension while promising 0.002 nanoseconds faster load times for Chrome.

And yet somehow, no matter how fast memory gets, Windows update will still find a way to bring your system to a crawl. It's the law of computing conservation: for every advancement in hardware, software will expand to waste it completely.

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