The claims of MetaRAM, a start-up offering its first big announcement on Monday, sound a bit like something you might hear from a late-night infomercial: The company claims it has quadrupled the amount of RAM that can fit on a single DIMM, bringing that number from 2GB all the way to 8GB. They say it will cut the cost of adding memory to servers by 90 percent, and best of all, that the product is right around the corner. But unlike all those other infomercial promises, as near as anyone can tell, MetaRAM isn’t bluffing.
