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Non-Volatile Computer Memory Mems Terabit Gigabit Perpendicular Recording Hard Drives Flash Cebit

Millipede memory is a non-volatile computer memory that stores data in nanoscopic pits burned into a thin polymer layer using a MEMS-based probe, promising a data density over 1 terabit per square inch. It was pursued as a potential replacement for magnetic hard drives, reducing the form factor to that of flash media. IBM demonstrated a prototype in 2005 aiming for commercial availability by 2007, but competing technologies advanced and no product was released. Modern computer memory uses DRAM, which stores bits as electrical charges in capacitors that can be read or written in blocks, while hard drives use magnetism on a spinning disk, limiting performance due to motor speed but allowing higher density than DRAM.

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Non-Volatile Computer Memory Mems Terabit Gigabit Perpendicular Recording Hard Drives Flash Cebit

Millipede memory is a non-volatile computer memory that stores data in nanoscopic pits burned into a thin polymer layer using a MEMS-based probe, promising a data density over 1 terabit per square inch. It was pursued as a potential replacement for magnetic hard drives, reducing the form factor to that of flash media. IBM demonstrated a prototype in 2005 aiming for commercial availability by 2007, but competing technologies advanced and no product was released. Modern computer memory uses DRAM, which stores bits as electrical charges in capacitors that can be read or written in blocks, while hard drives use magnetism on a spinning disk, limiting performance due to motor speed but allowing higher density than DRAM.

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Millipede memory is a non-volatile computer memory stored on nanoscopic pits burned into the

surface of a thin polymer layer, read and written by a MEMS-based probe.[4][5] It promised a data
density of more than 1 terabit per square inch (1 gigabit per square millimeter), which is about
the limit of the perpendicular recording hard drives. Millipede storage technology was pursued as
a potential replacement for magnetic recording in hard drives, at the same time reducing the
form-factor to that of flash media. IBM demonstrated a prototype millipede storage device
at CeBIT 2005, and was trying to make the technology commercially available by the end of
2007. However, because of concurrent advances in competing storage technologies, no
commercial product has been made available since then.
The main memory of modern computers is constructed from one of a number of DRAM-related
devices. DRAM basically consists of a series of capacitors, which store data as the presence or
absence of electrical charge. Each capacitor and its associated control circuitry, referred to as
a cell, holds one bit, and bits can be read or written in large blocks at the same time. In
contrast, hard drivesstore data on a disk that is covered with a magnetic material; data is
represented as local magnetisation of this material. Reading and writing are accomplished by a
single head, which waits for the requested memory location to pass under the head while the
disk spins. As a result, the drive's performance is limited by the mechanical speed of the motor,
and is generally hundreds of thousands of times slower than DRAM. However, since the "cells" in
a hard drive are much smaller, the storage density is much higher than DRAM.

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