MetaRAM, a company founded by AMD’s former CTO, claims to have invented a single DIMM 8GB RAM module. Currently DIMM RAM capacity is maxed out at 2GB. Its founders, Fred Weber, a former chief technology officer of AMD for a decade, and Suresh Rajan, a former Nvidia executive said they’ve used “a sort of 3D stacking technique to maximize how much memory fits aboard the chip, then using a proprietary controller to trick the host computer into thinking it’s an ordinary memory module”. Ultimately, and to MetaRAM’s point. the new 8GB single DIMM memory chips should cut the cost of adding new memory chips to servers by 90% – just replace the old 2GB chips without having to upgrade to new and often costly hardware. Expect MetaRAM’s memory modules to start showing up in servers at the end of ’08, but don’t expect them in laptops anytime soon.

Via Digitaltrends