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Random-access memory (RAM) allows data to be accessed in the same amount of time regardless of the data's physical location, unlike storage media with mechanical components. RAM takes the form of integrated circuits today and is normally volatile, meaning stored data is lost when power is removed. Different types of non-volatile memory also exist that allow random reading but have limitations on write operations. The first commercially available RAM chip, Intel's 1103 dynamic RAM, was introduced in 1970.

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Random-access memory (RAM) allows data to be accessed in the same amount of time regardless of the data's physical location, unlike storage media with mechanical components. RAM takes the form of integrated circuits today and is normally volatile, meaning stored data is lost when power is removed. Different types of non-volatile memory also exist that allow random reading but have limitations on write operations. The first commercially available RAM chip, Intel's 1103 dynamic RAM, was introduced in 1970.

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Random-access memory (RAM /rm/) is a form of computer data storage.

A random-access
memory device allows data items to be accessed (read or written) in almost the same amount of
time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. In contrast, with other directaccess data storage media such as hard disks, CD-RWs, DVD-RWs and the older drum memory,
the time required to read and write data items varies significantly depending on their physical
locations on the recording medium, due to mechanical limitations such as media rotation speeds and
arm movement delays.
Today, random-access memory takes the form of integrated circuits. RAM is normally associated
with volatile types of memory (such asDRAM memory modules), where stored information is lost if
power is removed, although many efforts have been made to develop non-volatile RAM chips.
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Other types of non-volatile memory exist that allow random access for read operations, but either

do not allow write operations or have limitations on them. These include most types of ROM and a
type of flash memory called NOR-Flash.
Integrated-circuit RAM chips came into the market in the late 1960s, with the first commercially
available DRAM chip, the Intel 1103, introduced in October 1970.

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