Intel’s superfast memory tech gets hit by a major delay

By Darren Allan

Intel has revealed that there will be a considerable delay in the arrival of 3D XPoint memory, and the blazingly fast modules apparently won’t pitch up until late 2018 at the earliest.

This news comes courtesy of The Motley Fool, which reports that in Intel’s latest earnings call, CEO Brian Krzanich said that: “There will be a second generation of Purley that includes 3D XPoint.”

In other words, 3D XPoint memory modules will arrive with Cannonlake-EP processors, so it’s unlikely to be here before late 2018 or more likely, the first half of 2019. So it’s at least two years away, or possibly even closer to a three year wait.

Note that this is 3D XPoint memory we are talking about here, and not Intel’s Optane superfast 3D XPoint SSDs which are still expected to pitch up before the end of 2016 as far as we’re aware (aimed at enthusiast PC owners and gamers who want lightning level loads).

Massive speed spike

3D XPoint is a transistor-less crosspoint (XPoint) architecture which it took Intel over a decade to develop, and the company claims it’s no less than 1,000 times faster than NAND flash (it will also have massively more endurance than your …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components