Your understanding if a bit flawed, and largely based on marketting. Intel has hinted XPOINT will be usable in DRAM slots, but has yet to announce a product.

Your understanding if a bit flawed, and largely based on marketting. Intel has hinted XPOINT will be usable in DRAM slots, but has yet to announce a product. Intel has stated XPOINT will replace DRAM buuut based on it's marketing material it won't. Having latencies go from 14nano-seconds to 9000nano-seconds isn't acceptable for a DRAM replacement.