In response, Rambus claimed patents on that flavor of memory and said that companies building DDR chips owed it royalty payments.
She says that in November and December, Intel, which makes mostly microprocessor chips used in PCs, started making a new version of its Pentium 4 processor that uses a different flavor of memory chip.
The captured movies have TV size and smoothness, as long as the more expensive Pro flavor of Sony's Memory Stick Duo memory card is used.
As a cook might taste a sauce and draw on a lifetime of flavor memory and experience to figure out what it needs — acid, sugar, salt, fat? — these scientists draw on laboratory experience and academic training to answer arcane questions such as: What is the best way to fling marshmallows over a long distance?
The great lengths that diners are willing to travel to eat their food, the hours they are willing to wait for a seat at the bar, may dramatize a desire to return, impossibly, to something unrecoverable — the "flavor memory" of childhood, the simple ecstasy of a packed family dinner table, a transformative Styrofoam plate of food-court stir-fry.
Sacks's wonderfully evocative notion of his first flavor memories and of the emotions ushering him out of this life speaks to the resonance of these early, nurturing experiences.
The form is there as it might be of any table in the trash, but the memory of what was served with its colors, flavors and textures has fallen through the holes of memory.
It may be the taste of something or simply an aroma, but in that moment we are suspended from our present reality and are taken to place full of flavor and memories.
"You want them to be able to melt, to enhance the flavor of dishes, to provide that taste memory". The concept of fermentation began to dawn on her some 35 years ago when she was living in Japan and saw a television show about nuns who were changing the flavor profile of tofu by burying it in ash or marinating it in miso.
Achatz is right when he says, "Flavor is memory".
Memory, all kinds of memory, is exploding.
