Obituary
Robert Dennard, Inventor of Computer DRAM at IBM, Dies at 91
- His memory cells let computers store more data at lower cost
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1997
Robert H. Dennard
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Robert Dennard, an engineer at IBM whose invention of dynamic random access memory — DRAM — in the late 1960s made possible personal computers, mobile phones, tablets and video game players, has died. He was 91.
He died on April 23, according to a death notice on the website of the Journal News, a newspaper in New York’s Hudson Valley.