The word "megabit" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it as a unit of data transfer speed. For example, "The router supports a maximum of 25 megabits per second of Wi-Fi data transfer speed."
Japan's chip industry may never be the same.This comes after optimistic signs from the chip firms in the autumn, when the price of the industry's standard 64 megabit DRAM (dynamic random-access memory) chip rose from around $7.50 to $10, as personal-computer makers snapped up supplies ready for their big Christmas push.
Instead of the usual DSL data rate of around one megabit per second, they offer faster connections (up to 6 megabits per second) to high-end users at higher prices, and slower connections (down to 0.15 megabits per second) to bring in more subscribers at the bottom of the market.
And there have been instances of rapists using dating sites to prey on women.A megabit on the sideThen there is the fuss over sites such as Illicit Encounters and Ashley Madison, which have sparked an outcry by matching people seeking partners for extramarital affairs.
Since last summer, the price of 64 megabit DRAM computer-memory chips, an industry benchmark, has fallen by more than half, to less than $4.
With just one megabit per second to share between all users, a Bluetooth wireless LAN will be drearily slow.
Compared with 3G, Mr Goldburg reckons it is about 40 times more efficient.The fact is that i-Burst base-stations equipped with smart antennas and colocated with the base-stations equippednetwith—can provide a throughput of one megabit (1m bitsmartr second, antennas one-thirtieth of the cost of building andG network for the same area.
As Alan Greenspan, chairman of America's Federal Reserve, hinted in his testimony to Congress on October 29th, South Korea's fall, which began in 1995, was triggered by a bet on memory chips.The country's misery began when the spot price of 16-megabit memory chips fell from a high of more than $50 to less than $10 in under a year.
Since then, Hitachi has been cranking up 64-megabit capacity as fast as possible just as the price of the chip has fallen through the floor.
Combine that with 14-megabit speed and 56-bit security, and the HomePlug makers believe they have a winner.
"My daily work was to develop a one-megabit RAM," he says.
Even the industry's elderly workhorse, the 64-megabit DRAM memory chip, has seen its spot price inch up from $8.50 late last year to $9.25 at the end of March.
