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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 21 2015, @06:37PM
I'd have to buy a new computer anyway. I have two PCIe x8 slots (PCIe 2), and one of those it the video card. No way am I going back to lame onboard video, and my double-width video dictates that I can't plug anything else into the other PCIe slot. Ehhh - expect to see motherboards in the not-distant future with zero PCI slots, and six or more PCIe.
Besides which, these things will probably require PCIe x16 - no good on this board! Even using a riser, the disks would communicate at 8x instead of 16x.