IC memory storage capacity

It is difficult to write about the amount of data which can be stored in the IC memory, simply because numbers keep increasing so fast. The best way to keep the track of technology is to look at advertisements for personal computers (PCs). These use RAM ICs in the practical, affordable appliances.
A double-spaced manuscript page in pica type size has about 200 words. Thus, the RAM in this computer theoretically holds 640 typewritten pages. That is an average novel.
How much RAM is needed by the average PC user? Technology comes up eventually against a point of diminishing returns. In the consumer word processing, this is already happening. But in the other computer endeavors, like graphics, simulations, interactive games, and high level mathematics, more RAM simply means much more accurate, more realistic, faster, and powerful results. The largest RAMs are found in the computers which are used by commerce and government.

Trendier than fashion
New technologies for IC memory are in the research-and-development (R & D) phase constantly. Therefore, you will hear and read abbreviations and acronyms not mentioned here. So rapidly does the art advance, which manufacturers have trouble keeping their databooks up to date. It is even worse than fashion industry. In electronic technology, once something is obsolete, it won’t comes back.