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Without random-access memory, a computer today can’t even boot up.—IEEE Spectrum,
21 July 2022 Micron Technology is a semiconductor manufacturer with a particular focus on NAND and DRAM chips (long-term data storage and dynamic random-access memory, respectively).—
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Forbes,
7 June 2021 The bug stems from the failure of the input-output memory management unit—which provides protection preventing the malicious modification of static random-access memory—to implement early enough in the firmware boot process.—
Dan Goodin,
Ars Technica,
5 Mar. 2020