http://www.ibm.com/News/ls950606.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
How many bookshelves would it take to hold the entire works of William Shakespeare, plus those of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, as well as the Manyoshu, the Kokinshu and the Tale of Genji? How many megs of hard disk space? Would you believe it could all fit on a single chip? Thanks to a breakthrough new design from IBM, Siemens A.G., and Toshiba, all of that text would now fit on a single fingernail-sized DRAM chip - with room to spare.
With a size of 286 square millimeters (less than one half inch) and a memory access time of just 26 nanoseconds (26 billionths of a second), the revolutionary new chip is at least 13 percent smaller and has an access time that is nearly twice as fast as any chip from any other company.
The smaller size and faster speed of the new chip will help enable future memory-hungry systems such as powerful personal computers and workstations, as well as high-definition digital video, multimedia and telecommunications systems.