Optane
It appears that the end may be in sight for Intel’s beleaguered Optane memory business. Tucked inside a brutal Q2’2022 earnings release for the company (more on that a bit later today) is a very curious statement in a section talking about non-GAAP adjustments: In Q2 2022, we initiated the winding down of our Intel Optane memory business. As well, Intel’s earnings report also notes that the company is taking a $559 Million “Optane inventory impairment” charge this quarter. Taking these items at face value, it would seem that Intel is preparing to shut down its Optane memory business and development of associated 3D XPoint technology. To be sure, there is a high degree of nuance here around the Optane name and product lines...
Intel Extends Optane Memory Support to Celeron & Pentium CPUs
When Intel launched its Optane Memory caching SSDs two years ago, it limited their support to mainstream and higher-end platforms essentially considering them premium products. Whether or not hybrid...
30 by Anton Shilov on 4/1/2019
Micron Exercises Option to Buyout Intel's Share of IMFT
Micron is following through with the next step in the breakup of their long alliance with Intel for storage technology. As announced last October, Micron is exercising their call...
18 by Billy Tallis on 1/14/2019
New Generation of Optane M.2 SSDs Coming Soon
Intel's Optane products so far fall into one of two categories. At the high end is the flagship P4800X enterprise SSD and its derivatives for the enthusiast market. At...
27 by Billy Tallis on 1/8/2019
Intel's Response: Micron’s Control of 3D XPoint Fab Will Not Disrupt Optane Roadmap
Intel late on Friday said that Micron’s intention to gain full control of the IMFT joint venture will not interrupt its plans concerning products based on 3D XPoint memory...
26 by Anton Shilov on 10/22/2018
Intel Optane Memory AMA Recap
Late last month the AnandTech Forums community team held a two-day AMA session with Intel's Optane technology team about their Optane products and 3D XPoint technology in general ...
32 by Ryan Smith on 10/11/2018
Join Us This Week for an AT Forums AMA with Intel's Optane Memory Team
On Wednesday, September 26th through Thursday, September 27th AnandTech's community team will be hosting an ask-me-anything session with Intel’s Optane Team, which will be taking place in the AnandTech...
6 by Ryan Smith on 9/27/2018
Intel Expands Optane 905P SSDs To 1.5TB
Intel has officially launched the next wave of Optane SSDs, continuing a gradual rollout of higher density drives as their production of 3D XPoint memory catches up with demand...
14 by Billy Tallis on 9/21/2018
Intel and Micron To Dissolve 3D XPoint Partnership After 2019
A press release from Intel today has clarified the state of the 3D XPoint Joint Venture the company has with Micron. Currently Intel and Micron co-developed the new class...
19 by Ian Cutress on 7/16/2018
Building for Apache Pass: Why Some Skylake Servers Already have 8 DIMMs Per Socket
If you don’t have a hand in a server day in and day out, it was perhaps not obvious why some Skylake servers when launched had eight memory slots...
16 by Ian Cutress on 6/13/2018
Intel Previews M.2 Optane SSD 905P 380GB
During Intel's keynote at Computex 2018, Intel Client Computing Group manager Gregory Bryant offered a brief preview of the upcoming M.2 version of the Optane SSD 905P high-end NVMe...
5 by Billy Tallis on 6/5/2018
The AnandTech Podcast, Episode 47: Intel Goes Super Premium Optane
Today at Intel’s Data Center Memory Summit, the new ‘Apache Pass’ Optane memory DIMMs were announced, with capacities from 128 GB to 512 GB. This new 3D XPoint type...
36 by Ian Cutress on 6/4/2018
Intel Launches Optane DIMMs Up To 512GB: Apache Pass Is Here!
Intel today announced the availability of their long-awaited Optane DIMMs, bringing 3D XPoint memory onto the DDR4 memory bus. The modules that have been known under the Apache Pass...
74 by Ian Cutress & Billy Tallis on 5/30/2018
Intel Persistent Memory Event: Live Blog
It's a Live Blog! More Optane in bound, looks like Apache Pass.
28 by Ian Cutress on 5/30/2018
The Intel Optane Memory M10 (64GB) Review: Optane Caching Refreshed
Intel's Optane Memory M.2 caching drives are being updated. The new drives gain a new model number (M10), the same power management improvements introduced by the Optane SSD 800P...
98 by Billy Tallis on 5/15/2018
HP 2018 Envy 34-Inch Curved All-in-One Gets Cozier
HP has announced a new version of its top-of-the-range Envy 34 all-in-one computer. The new PC has a six-core CPU along with a new graphics processor. One of its...
15 by Anton Shilov on 5/14/2018
AKiTiO's Node Lite Optane Drive: An External Intel 905P SSD in Exclusive Red
AKiTiO and Intel this week announced plans to release a special product bundle consisting of AKiTiO’s Node Lite Thunderbolt 3 box and Intel’s Optane 905P SSD. The Node Lite...
6 by Anton Shilov on 5/3/2018
Intel Optane SSD 905P Coming Soon
Intel hasn't officially announced it yet, but a refresh of their flagship consumer SSD is on the way. The Intel Optane SSD 905P will feature slightly improved performance and...
23 by Billy Tallis on 5/1/2018
Intel’s Core i5+, Core i7+ CPUs with Bundled Optane Memory Hit Retail
Earlier this month Intel introduced its Core i+ processor brand for desktops and laptops. The brand-within-a-brand setup sees Intel's 8th gen Core i5, i7, and i9 CPUs bundled with...
44 by Anton Shilov on 4/12/2018
Intel Previews Optane Enterprise M.2 SSD
At the Open Compute Project Summit this week, Intel previewed their upcoming enterprise Optane SSD in the M.2 form factor, currently planned to be named the Optane SSD DC...
15 by Billy Tallis on 3/21/2018
The Intel Optane SSD 800p (58GB & 118GB) Review: Almost The Right Size
Intel's first Optane products hit the market almost a year ago, putting the much-awaited 3D XPoint memory in the hands of consumers. Today, Intel broadens that family with the...
116 by Billy Tallis on 3/8/2018
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