Thread: Your views on computer specs

Because memory cannot keep up! Processors are leaky and that's why they evolve so fast.
Memory cannot be leaky, which is one of the biggest problems.

Would you please define "leaky" in this context?

My very uneducated guess is that it's because DRAM is more analog. CPU is just a bunch of transistors switching. DRAM is actually transistors and capacitors (that actually store the information). Charging up capacitors takes more time.

Yes, dram does use capacitors as opposed to sram which is only transistors. I didn't take into account that the capacitors may have some fixed amount of time which they need to be able to charge up every time they drain...

I don't understand why they still use capacitors. Are transistors really that much more expensive?

My best guess would be that leaky means that it is "leaking" power, ie consuming power without doing much work, like a leak current through a transistor.
I believe the biggest reason we use capacitors is because they take less space.

Originally Posted by Elysia

I believe the biggest reason we use capacitors is because they take less space.

Are you sure about that? I am real ignorant of these things but I would have guessed a capacitor is a more physical voluminous thing than a transistor by nature.

Not 100% sure, no, but I do believe it is the case.
At least it is what I been led to believe in, as I've studied different types of memory.