> Through the years, imec has made considerable progress in assessing, understanding, and modeling reliability failure, paving the way to building reliable IGZO transistors with a target lifetime of five years

Replacing your DRAM sticks every five years may be okay, but what about for boards with soldered on memory?

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IlikeKitties 3 days ago | parent [-]

If a Single Cell has a lifetime of 5 years (of hopefully constant r/w cycles) than with a few reserve cells and a controller like an ssd you could propably get decades of lifetime on a stick.

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russdill 3 days ago | parent [-]

That isn't the impression I get. It's not a wear issue so much as a natural degregation of the materials. It's something that is being worked on for the technology to be viable.

	▲	crote 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Their graphs show it as being voltage-dependent, so there's definitely some wear component involved.