Re:Understanding the Intel Optane Shutdown
by HarHarVeryFunny on Friday September 23, 2022 @03:25PM
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It was never just about Optane. The joint Micron/Intel 3DXPoint technology was meant to be a new type of non-volatile memory who's performance was closer to memory than disk, leading to all sorts of revolutionary changes in the way memory was used.
The trouble is the performance goals were never realized, so the revolutionary non-volatile main memory use case was not realized. Optane/SSD-usage seems to have been an attempt to at least salvage something from the investment given that it was fast enough for that, but I suppose it the end it can't have been cost competitive with NAND-based SSDs. Perhaps the economy of scale would have been different if the technology had met it's performance goals and been more widely used ?
The trouble is the performance goals were never realized, so the revolutionary non-volatile main memory use case was not realized. Optane/SSD-usage seems to have been an attempt to at least salvage something from the investment given that it was fast enough for that, but I suppose it the end it can't have been cost competitive with NAND-based SSDs. Perhaps the economy of scale would have been different if the technology had met it's performance goals and been more widely used ?