Patent ID: 7375971

Claim:
A memory module comprising an electronic printed circuit board and a plurality of semiconductor chips of the same type that are mounted on at least one outer face of the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board has a connector strip, which runs at a first edge of the at least one outer face a first direction and has a multiplicity of electrical contacts that are lined up in the first direction, wherein the printed circuit board extends in the first direction between two second edges, wherein at least nine of the semiconductor chips of the same type are respectively mounted next to one another on the at least one outer face of the printed circuit board between the center of the printed circuit board and the respective second edge of the printed circuit board, wherein the at least nine of the semiconductor chips of the same type respectively have a smaller dimension and, in a direction perpendicular to the smaller dimension, a larger dimension which is larger than the smaller dimension, wherein a respective first group of four of the semiconductor chips of the same type, which are oriented so as to have their shorter dimension parallel to the connector strip, is arranged at the respective second edge of the printed circuit board, wherein a second group of five of the semiconductor chips of the same type is respectively arranged between the first group of semiconductor chips and the center of the printed circuit board, and wherein the first group of semiconductor chips and the second group of semiconductor chips are respectively connected by two separate line buses whose conductor tracks branch toward all the semiconductor chips in the respective group of semiconductor chips.