The Ten Best Memory Chips

Four of these came from Intel: the first commercial MOS DRAM, the first EPROM, the first commercial EEPROM and MLC flash. The PROM had a major effect on the industry, hence the inclusion of the 5603 1K PROM. The other memopry chips had a profound effect on their markets at the time. The Mostek 16K DRAM, the Inmos 16K NMOS SRAM, the NEC 256K DRAM, the Toshiba 1Mbit DRAM set the standards for those product areas, and dominated their markets. So here are the ten best memory chips: