40 years ago we entered the megabit memory era with IBM’s DRAM breakthrough — a major leap beyond the 64 kilobit chips common at the time

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IBM framed the announcement as American tech fighting back against Japan’s increasing domination of the memory market.

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As a child of the 90s, I still remember the big emphasis in English-langauge media on the rise of Japan in the 80s. But even in the 90s, Japan was some sort of land of the future with next generation electronics and bullet trains.

And now we get articles about usage of fax still being prevalent and Japan finally getting rid of floppy disks in government workflows.

Would love to visit Japan for two months.

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And now we entered the “no affordable memory at all” era.

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