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: 3, Interesting) by gman003 on Friday August 21 2015, @02:45PM
If you look at their actual presentation, they ran benchmarks at various queue depths, not just QD1. QD1 merely had the highest split between flash and xpoint. Both scale to higher queue depths, but xpoint is held back less by low queue depths.
I agree that QD1 isn't particularly relevant for servers, but they're targeting it at all market segments. Servers are merely the most likely place for it to be quickly adopted, but they want it in everything from laptops on up.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @04:27PM
What test did they do that the read IOPS of their p3700 is so low?
http://www.pcper.com/reviews/Storage/Intel-SSD-DC-P3700-800GB-Review-Ludicrous-Speed-Masses/IOMeter-IOps [pcper.com]