RAM - 2024 PACE NSC - Buzzpoints App

Question

Conflict with JEDEC standards for this hardware component caused a company co-founded by Mark Horowitz (20[2])to sue many of its competitors before losing market dominance in the aughts. This component can be composed of a grid of word lines and bit lines connected to sense amplifiers. A DIMM (“DIM”) holds (20[1])two instances (20[2])of this component (20[3])“in-line.” (20[2])In (20[1])2020, (20[2])a new alignment key for this component’s 288 pins was released (20[1])with the fifth (20[1])generation of its “double (20[1])data (20[1])rate,” (20[1])or (*) DDR5. (10[5])Heat (10[1])sinks lay flush with “sticks” (10[1])of this component. (10[2])Primary storage is typically (10[1])implemented with this component, in contrast to secondary storage in the hard drive. For 10 points, name this hardware component that temporarily stores volatile (10[1])data. (10[2])■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: RAM [or DRAM or SDRAM or SRAM or random access memory or dynamic RAM or synchronous dynamic RAM or static random access memory or RAM sticks; prompt on memory storage or memory module; prompt on storage until read; reject “SRAM” or “static RAM”] (Mark Horowitz co-founded Rambus, Inc.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Buzz Position	Value
Matthew Wozniak	Freeman	Thomas Jefferson B	14	20
Rajiv Pujara	Fairfield County AT	Thomas Jefferson D	14	20
Shaun Iyer	Innovation Academy B	Barrington	48	20
Sky Hong	Choate Rosemary Hall	St. Thomas	50	20
Jacob Barta	Detroit Catholic Central A	Seven Lakes	50	20
Julian Halpern-Smith	Belmont	Lightridge	53	20
David Black	University Lab	Detroit Catholic Central B	53	20
Brayden Ferrell	Heights	Detroit Catholic Central C	53	20
Aiden Dombrosky	Hoover B	Mexico	54	20
Jonathan Tao	Stevenson B	Solon	54	20
Cole Hartung	Kinkaid	Cincinnati Hills	55	20
Jack Liu	Livingston B	Innovation Academy A	56	20
Devesh Kumar	Maggie Walker B	Lambert	56	20
Lelun Li	Livingston A	James W. Robinson	67	20
David Lins	Maggie Walker C	Alabama Cyber Tech	70	20
Andrew Evans	McLean B	Chattahoochee	74	20
Tyler Song	Winston Churchill A	Hunter B	75	20
Eli Taylor	West Point	Thomas Jefferson A	76	20
Max Chen	Strake Jesuit	Elkhorn North	78	10
Owen Linder	Hastings	Walter Payton A	78	10
Fahian Joy	Hunter A	Georgetown Day	78	10
Risshi Naavaal	Maggie Walker A	St. Xavier	78	10
Dillon Robertson	Carbondale	Stevenson A	78	10
Teddy Berente	Saint Joseph	Beavercreek	79	10
Spencer Thomas	Durham AT	Owensboro	84	10
Alec West	Lindbergh	Richard Montgomery A	87	10
Andrea Schirano	Bloomington	Okemos	87	10
Stephen McCollum	Hoover A	Winston Churchill B	91	10
Brighton Risch	Great Valley	DuPage County AT	115	10
Brandon Torres	Carl Sandburg	McLean A	116	10
Russell Dillak	Northmont B	St. Mark's	116	10
Alan Fan	Thomas Jefferson C	Canyon Crest	117	10
Omkar Marathe	William Fremd	Johns Creek B	117	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	Exact Match?	TUH	Conv. %	Power %	Neg %	Average Buzz
2024 PACE NSC	06/08/2024	Y	33	100%	55%	0%	71.85