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 ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. We recently discussed the prospect of Intel Optane DC persistent memory (DCPMM) migrating from the data ...

Intel formally launched the Optane persistent memory product line, which includes 3D Xpoint memory technology. The Intel-only solution is meant to sit between DRAM and NAND and to speed up performance ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. Optane media may get all the buzz, but it’s Optane’s various modes that make it even more powerful in ...

Optane has long occupied a kind of no man's land in personal computing, but Intel aims to change that with its latest drive. Known as 3D XPoint before the "Optane" rebrand, the technology exists as a ...

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 ...

While 3D XPoint memory has been shipping as Optane from Intel for two years, it hasn't found a great deal of traction, but a new server DIMM and an upcoming Micron product release may change that.

When does a PC have “24GB of memory?” When its Intel Optane Memory, which assists in storage, is being counted on top of the 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of RAM we’re used to seeing on mainstream PCs.

Two long years after Intel debuted its radical—and awesome—Optane Memory caching SSDs, the company has finally decided to embrace the processors that could appreciate the technology’s benefits the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dave Altavilla is a Tech Analyst covering chips, compute and AI. In the current trend of ultra-thin and light laptops, doing more ...

When Intel starts shipping its “Cascade Lake” Xeons in volume soon, it will mark a turning point in the server space. But not for processors – for memory. The Cascade Lake Xeon SP will be the first ...

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 ...