A startup company called intuitively Metaram announced on Monday a new technology that allows the company to pack more RAM into a memory module just like that, in a move that will allow people to simply quadruple memory without buying and adding new hardware. If this is really true, Metaram’s technology will simply overcome traditional memory limitations, which are highly irritating for any user or network administrator.

The MetaSDRAM chipset created by Metaram targets servers and it was designed to sit between the DRAM module and a memory controller; it will process commands and manipulate the memory controller in order to allow the system to have up to four times more memory. This means that MetaSDRAM chipset’s capability to read the additional memory will allow memory makers to pack more RAM on a single memory module, in a move that will overcome typical memory limitations and their inconveniences. For example, an 8-socket x86 server that was previously limited to 256 GB of RAM will now support no less than 1 T byte of RAM, thanks to Metaram’s MetaSDRAM chipset.

"That allows the system to overcome traditional limitations to read the additional RAM on a [memory module]," said Metaram’s senior manager of marketing, Jeremy Werner.

"If you can put a terabyte of memory in a system, your entire Oracle database can sit in the memory. That's a rocket booster," said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64, who also confirmed that such a chipset that will be able to simply quadruple the system’s memory capacity sounded very attractive.

The brand new technology also results in cost savings, as users won’t have to add CPUs in order to boost their systems’ capacity.

Metaram hasn’t yet said how much a chipset that quadruples RAM memory will cost, but announced that chipsets that help double memory were available to memory makers and would cost $200 in quantities of 1,000.