Facts about Hardware

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   Kingston's HyperX Fury DDR4 memory modules achieve speeds of 3,200 megahertz while consuming only 1.35 volts, enabling high-performance gaming systems since 2015.

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2. 08

   Exponential growth in manufacturing enabled Moore's Law to hold for five decades, with transistor counts doubling approximately every 18 to 24 months from 1965 through 2015 before slowing.

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   Corsair's MP600 CORE XT solid-state drive uses QLC NAND flash memory to deliver 1 terabyte of storage at a price point under 100 dollars as of 2023.

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4. 06

   AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X processor released in September 2022 features 16 cores with a base clock of 4.5 gigahertz and a boost clock reaching 5.7 gigahertz.

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   Seagate's Barracuda Pro hard drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording to achieve 12 terabytes of storage capacity in a single 3.5-inch drive as of 2023.

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   Samsung's 990 Pro solid-state drive, released in 2022, achieves sequential read speeds of 7,100 megabytes per second using PCIe 4.0 technology.

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7. 03

   Nvidia's RTX 4090 graphics card released in October 2022 contains 16,384 CUDA cores and consumes 450 watts, making it the most powerful consumer GPU available.

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   In 2014, Intel released the Core M processor with a thermal design power of just 4.5 watts, eliminating the need for fans in ultrabooks and tablets.

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   The Intel 4004, released in 1971, contained 2,300 transistors and operated at 740 kilohertz, making it the first commercially available microprocessor.

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