Synchronous vs. Asynchronous DRAM

Question

I have simple question, why do we use in computers today synchronous memory? Is there some advantage over asynchronous?

Answer 1

There's a good overview at Ars Technica on RAM.

Answer 2

As usual, Wikipedia does a better job of explaining than I could, but the important bit seems to be:

SDRAM has a synchronous interface, meaning that it waits for a clock signal before responding to control inputs and is therefore synchronized with the computer's system bus. The clock is used to drive an internal finite state machine that pipelines incoming instructions. This allows the chip to have a more complex pattern of operation than an asynchronous DRAM, which does not have a synchronized interface.