Tuesday, June 27, 2000

New chip doubles memory

IBM Corp. unveiled a new chip that should double the amount of memory in both desktop PCs and handheld devices. The chip acts as an intermediary between the processor and the memory, encoding the data to take up half the space it normally uses. According to IBM, the new Memory eXpansion Technology (MXT) is 10,000 times faster than software-based systems.

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