By Darren Allan
Intel’s Optane products will be available as soon as next year for enthusiast PC owners – meaning those with high-end rigs such as gamers who are prepared to fork out for blazing fast SSDs.
This is according to Kirk Skaugen, senior VP and general manager of the Client Computing Group, who made the announcement at Intel’s investor conference yesterday, as PC World reports.
If you not heard of Optane before, it’s essentially a supposedly revolutionary new memory category which promises super speedy SSDs and system memory. It was first unveiled earlier this year as 3D Xpoint (Optane is the snappier brand name for Intel’s version of the tech).
3D Xpoint (pronounced ‘3D crosspoint’) took Intel over a decade of research to hone, and boasts a transistor-less crosspoint architecture which is something like a three-dimensional chessboard, allowing for data to be read and written in small sizes far more quickly and efficiently.
According to Intel, it represents the biggest memory breakthrough since NAND flash was introduced, and it’s a big, big deal with the company claiming it’s no less than 1000 times faster than NAND (with 1000 times greater endurance, too).
SSDs and DIMMs
The first Optane products will be SSDs and memory DIMMs (the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components
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