Intel announced that they are winding down their Optane memory business during their most recent quarterly report. At the 2022 Flash Memory Summit, Intel’s announcement led to lots of discussion about ...

But what exactly is Optane, and what is it good for? (Analytics and AI, to name two major use cases.) If you’re not feeling up to speed, don’t worry. We’ll have you covered on all the basics in the ...

Within the semiconductor industry, manufacturing memory chips may be the toughest task. Not technically tough -- manufacturing an advanced CPU or GPU is a lot more complicated than churning out DRAM ...

Back in February we speculated that Intel might drop its Optane memory business. In its latest earning release, Intel stated that “in Q2 2022, we initiated the winding down of our Intel Optane memory ...

Intel has unveiled a new tier of Optane storage -- one designed to bridge the gap between volatile and non-volatile memory and create a new class of "Persistent" memory in the process. Share on ...

If you haven’t built a super-high-end workstation in a while, you might not have heard of Intel’s Optane memory caching tech. Optane also powered ultra-fast SSDs for consumers and businesses alike.

Optane, the memory technology pioneered and championed by Intel, has seen its last days. Intel has decided to wind down the technology as part of a refocusing effort. The news came on an earnings call ...

In its Q2'2022 earnings release, Intel has indicated that it will shutter the entire Optane memory business, which signals the end of the development of the promising 3D XPoint technology. Intel has ...

For years, Intel Optane seemed destined to reshape how we store data in computers. It promised to bridge the gap between blazing-fast RAM and practical storage, with latency and consistency that ...

Right now, we have lightning-fast RAM and massive NVMe SSDs, yet there is still a massive latency gap between them. For a few years, Intel Optane (3DX) filled that gap, promising the speed of memory ...

Intel continued its mission to get out of the memory business by winding down its Optane operations. A big inventory write-down is a small price to pay to exit a business that's just not working. This ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Solid-state drives offer much faster read and write speeds over their traditional hard drive counterparts. However, they're often limited in ...