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Dram Inventor Honored with Prestigious Japanese Award
Robert Dennard's work "provided the essential foundation for tremendous progress in information and communications equipments," the Inamori Foundation said.
Credit: PC World
A U.S. researcher at IBM who invented the basic building block of the modern DRAM has been honored with a prestigious Japanese award and a $500,000 prize.
Robert Dennard was given the Kyoto Prize in the electronics category on Friday, awarded by the Inamori Foundation. The first DRAM chip that used his technology went on sale in 1973. DRAM at that time had less storage than current versions — it was sold in 1k and 4k varieties.
From PC World
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