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Re:In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the s... by freeone3000 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:36PM (#26033161)
Intel sells Optane, which is SRAM for the modern era. It's kind of tricky to get anything out of it (edit: besides using it as a really fast disk, which is what it's currently treated like) without bespoke software, as it's neither disk (byte-addressable!) nor RAM (persistent!). Linux kernel support is experimental and ongoing. It's coming, but it's not here yet.

It's also $3000 per TB, triple the price of DDR4, and not much faster.

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Re:In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the s... by hnuser123456 on Friday February 05, 2021 @06:07PM (#26042368)
It's about $1200 per TB for the now-discontinued consumer models.

The real benefit vs. NAND is that it doesn't care about read/write mix and has max IOPS with any mix with consistently very, very low latency.

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Re:In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the s... by selimthegrim on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:50PM (#26033259)
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane...
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Re:In the future even your RAM will have firmware; and the s... by freeone3000 on Thursday February 04, 2021 @11:58PM (#26033301)
They're killing the "consumer" line, not the product entirely. That same announcement unveils the P5800X, which hooks up to a PCI-e x4 slot just the same. There are resellers available for single-unit quantities.
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