The emergence of dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in the 1970s had a huge impact on the future of digital computing. Its inventor, Robert H. Dennard, explains how the drive for simplicity led to this breakthrough.
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Dennard, R.H. How we made DRAM. Nat Electron 1, 372 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0091-3
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