If you have a question about a memory device or some technical aspect of the part, it is very likely to be covered here. Please review the contents. We hope you find the information helpful. A memory chip is an electronic part which is used by a computer, any type of computer, to store a program or data. The difference between a program and data is that a program is a sequence of instructions which tell the computer what to do.
Data is information which the computer references as it runs it's program.
In the memory chip the program and data information appear to be identical as they are both stored as a series of 1's and 0's. There are two basic types of memory chips. These are volatile and non-volatile. A non-volatile memory chip will not lose its contents when power is removed. Let's examine each term.