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 ...

For years, Intel Optane seemed destined to reshape how we store data in computers. It promised to bridge the gap between blazing-fast RAM and practical storage, with latency and consistency that ...

If you wanted the space of a hard drive, but the speed of an SSD, there weren't many options. Intel aimed to change that with ...

If you haven’t built a super-high-end workstation in a while, you might not have heard of Intel’s Optane memory caching tech. Optane also powered ultra-fast SSDs for consumers and businesses alike.

Optane has long occupied a kind of no man's land in personal computing, but Intel aims to change that with its latest drive. Known as 3D XPoint before the "Optane" rebrand, the technology exists as a ...

Intel's just-launched Optane H20 drive is a unique memory/SSD combination that provides some performance benefits, but our testing shows it's not a slam-dunk for every laptop user. I’m the deputy ...

When Intel introduced its Optane memory solution, it was deemed the future of computing. "For the first time ever, we'll be able to equip computers with memory that's faster than NAND and more dense ...

Intel and Micron ran a joint development and production program for the Phase Change Memory know as 3D XPoint. This semiconductor non-volatile memory product is faster and more durable than NAND flash ...

You know Optane offers a thousand times the switching speed of an SSD. You know it’ll work with Intel’s newly announced Z270 chipset and Kaby Lake CPUs. And now you know what it’ll look like. A day ...

Intel has a new consumer-targeted storage product, called Optane H20—as in H twenty, not water. The new device is an M.2 2280 format drive, using QLC (Quad Level Cell) NAND storage running behind an ...