The SSD market can seem overwhelming at first glance. Each product claims to be the fastest with advanced technologies that leave the competition in the dust. There's a lot of marketing fluff and ...

At CES this year, Intel announced its Optane H10 Memory Solution -- a novel idea for combining Optane and new, quad-level cell NAND on the same M.2 card. It's an adaptation of the same caching idea we ...

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Intel has fully killed off its Optane Memory business, a line of memory that was slightly slower than RAM but offered persistent memory and high input/output operations per second. The company said ...

Intel Optane is based on a new Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVME) technology called 3D XPoint (pronounced “cross point”). The company asserts that 3D XPoint is up to 1,000 times faster than NAND flash ...

Intel announced today the first Optane-branded product using its new 3D XPoint memory: the catchily named Intel Optane SSD DC P4800X. It’s a 375GB SSD on a PCIe card. Initial limited availability ...

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Intel has finally brought Optane technology to the consumer market, with 58GB and 118GB drives. Performance is excellent, but pricing is a concern. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) Share on X ...

In an interview earlier this year with Ben Thompson of Stratechery, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger made it very clear how much he dislikes the memory business. "I never want to be in memory, you see I'm ...

Intel is known for cranking up PC speeds to new highs, and it’s doing the same for storage with the super fast Optane. Optane, which Intel claims will replace today’s SSDs and DRAM, is exciting for ...

Intel’s Optane Memory H10 SSD is one of those enigmas of PC hardware that can drive reviewers crazy. It is—simply put—a storage technology that is more responsive in some cases, but slower in others.

Back in February we speculated that Intel might drop its Optane memory business. In its latest earning release, Intel stated that “in Q2 2022, we initiated the winding down of our Intel Optane memory ...