« on: January 15, 2003, 11:38:55 PM »
IIRC the X4 part means 4 bits. In order to get 1M by a byte you need two chips. You have to divide the number of chips by 2 to get MB. So 8 1X4's would be 4MB.
16 256X4's would be 16/2 to get bytes = 8 /4 again for only being 256K = 2MB.
I hope that makes sense.
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