[Kikawala]

> 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?

[IlikeKitties]

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.

[russdill]

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.