Millipede memory

<p>Millipede memory is a form of <a href="/facts/Non-volatile_memory/EN72wMD9">non-volatile computer memory</a>. It promised a data density of more than 1 <a href="/facts/Terabit/aaConqna">terabit</a> per square inch (1 <a href="/facts/Gigabit/X71SBDuf">gigabit</a> per square millimeter), which is about the limit of the <a href="/facts/Perpendicular_recording/K9nY3eS5">perpendicular recording</a> <a href="/facts/Hard_disk_drive/kekLSGSE">hard drives</a>. Millipede storage technology was pursued as a potential replacement for magnetic recording in hard drives and a means of reducing the physical size of the technology to that of <a href="/facts/Flash_memory/Cn8JsStx">flash</a> media. 
</p><p>IBM demonstrated a prototype millipede storage device at <a href="/facts/CeBIT/UWCnT5hG">CeBIT</a> 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.
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Millipede memory open-in-new

Millipede memory