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The Cloudflare Blog·Nov 23, 2018·15 min read58

Every 7.8μs your computer’s memory has a hiccup

I was particularly interested in one of the consequences of how dynamic RAM works. You see, each bit of data is stored by the charge (or lack of it) on a tiny capacitor within the RAM chip. But these capacitors gradually lose their charge over time.

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