The research and development side is all about the memory chips themselves, from the computer side, it’s basically just waiting for the latest and greatest version to come out and slapping that on instead of the older stuff, as well as possibly needing to tweak some code.

If you want to develop it, you’ll have to learn how to design integrated circuits that use millions of transistors, and even at that sort of level I don’t think there’s a massive amount of research for ram specifically, it’s all about figuring out how to make transistors smaller and smaller.

https://www.quora.com/How-does-one-get-to-work-as-an-integrated-circuit-designer

@XOIIO So would reading electronics engineering textbooks help?

It depends on how in depth they are, this is an extremely complex field to go into. I’d try and find some forums, if there even are any, for people who do this sort of design work.

@RedDeerGuy1 Getting into R&D for ram is not different than getting into computer R&D. I actually studied this in college. Studying electrical and/or computer engineering is what it takes. I studied CMOS design and computer architecture and that would be considered the basics. Research in this would likely also take graduate level physics and more computer architecture focus. Here are a few introductory texts that don’t really require prerequisites to understand. This is not like building a computer from parts like the previous book I recommended this is understanding how they are designed at a fundamental level.