IBM has just published his research on memory Millipede and shows that it retains its data as long as a conventional flash memory.

90% of data in 10 years
The work was conducted by the Swiss research laboratory of IBM in Zurich. By amending the constitution of the polymer on which are written the data, researchers have seen that a temperature of 85 ° C, the Millipede can keep 90% to 80% its information for over ten years, which is similar to flash memory.

IBM Memory MEMS
As a reminder, Millipede means centipedes in English and refers to the thousands of small nanoscopic silicon heads are designed to read or write data independently of each other, thereby improving the flow. There is talk of a transfer rate of 100 GB / s according to the latest experiments. Data is stored on a thin layer of polymer Clima placed on a silicon substrate is called the "sled".