At the USB Global Technology Conference on Tuesday, Intel shared an updated roadmap indicating it is on runway to liberate Optane DIMMs inward the instant one-half of 2018.
Going upwards against DDR4 is the side past times side frontier for 3D XPoint memory. Intel says Optane DIMMs volition convey the speed of DDR4 retentiveness in addition to hold upwards able to retain information without power. Up until now, it was i or the other: purpose slower NAND for information retention, or DRAM for speed.
Intel has already released a handful of Optane SSD products, starting alongside the DC P4800X, a standalone PCIe SSD for corporation in addition to datacenter clients. The companionship followed that upwards alongside Optane Memory modules aimed at delivering a speed boost to storage drives, peculiarly mechanical difficult drives, in addition to to a greater extent than of late Intel launched a standalone SSD for consumers, the Optane SSD 900P.
While the initial focus has been on storage, Intel anticipates that 3D XPoint DIMMs volition hold upwards an $8 billion marketplace position past times 2021. It's a bold prediction, in addition to it comes downwardly to how closely Optane DIMMs tin compete alongside DDR4 (and presumably DDR5 at roughly point) memory, every bit good every bit pricing.
As to the latter point, Intel in addition to Microsoft this calendar week announced the completion of an expansion to their flash production facilities inward Utah. This volition enable the companies to boost production of 3D XPoint memory.
Intel's Optane DIMMs volition component division every bit a memory-mapped device in addition to convey a much higher density than DDR4 memory, TomsHardware reports. They volition too hold upwards mechanically in addition to electrically compatible alongside DDR4, but volition involve a novel proprietary interface. And on the outset, they volition non hold upwards JEDEC-compliant, though that could alter downwardly the line.
Initially the focus volition hold upwards on servers in addition to datacenters alongside workloads consisting of big information analytics, cloud computing, AI training, in addition to thus forth. But if 3D XPoint DIMMs balloons into an $8 billion marketplace position every bit Intel anticipates, in addition to thus it volition merely hold upwards a thing of fourth dimension earlier it migrates into the consumer sector.
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