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How many 256x8 ram chips are needed to provide a memory capacity of 4096 bytes?

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256x8 means the memory is 8bits wide, and there are 256 of these 8bit memory segments. Since 8bits is a byte and each RAM module is 256bytes, the modules needed are 4096/256=16, as mentioned above.
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