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from the waiting-for-"Optene"-or-maybe-"Optyne" dept.
Were you concerned that Intel and Micron's new and totally-not-phase-change-memory technology would become vaporware? At the Intel Developer Forum 2015, Intel announced that 3D XPoint based products will be available in 2016 under a new brand name: Optane.
The Optane products will be available in 2016, in both standard SSD (PCIe) form factors for everything from Ultrabooks to servers, and in a DIMM form factor for Xeon systems for even greater bandwidth and lower latencies. As expected, Intel will be providing storage controllers optimized for the 3D XPoint memory, though no further details on that subject matter were provided. This announcement is in-line with Intel and Micron's original 3D XPoint announcement last month, which also announced that 3D XPoint would be out in 2016.
Finally, as part of the Optane announcement, Intel also gave the world's first live 3D XPoint demonstration. In a system with an Optane PCIe SSD, Intel ran a quick set of live IOps benchmarks comparing the Optane SSD to their high-end P3700 SSD. The Optane SSD offered better than 5x the IOps of the P3700 SSD, with that lead growing to more than 7x at a queue depth of 1, a client-like workload where massive arrays of NAND like the P3700 traditionally struggle to achieve maximum performance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @02:08PM
I am with you.
These releases are currently vaporware. They have very deliberately NOT given sizes. Just generalizations of what it might do. I was very excited at first but now not so much.
If they can do half of what they are speculating then these will be interesting. But does not look like they are positioning it as a flash replacement but a flash cache and handheld device memory BOM cost reducer.
It is interesting that they are putting it near the memory subsystem using DIMM packaging. Which says they see it more as a memory subsystem replacement.
I said it before and I say it again. The split comparison of speed vs SSD and size vs memory is kinda misleading. They are trying to imply it is both. When we do not see speed vs memory and size vs SSD.
I could just be paranoid. But it is at least still pretty cool stuff.