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