Your operating system will see them as storage, not regular DRAM. Intel has released SDKs for developers to use if their applications need to be able to interac

Your operating system will see them as storage, not regular DRAM. Intel has released SDKs for developers to use if their applications need to be able to interact with persistent memory in any kind of detailed way (say, if you develop a database product, or a filesystem). http://pmem.io/pmdk/ http://pmem.io/pmdk/ It is very likely that generic kernel support will come for use in Linux and Windows directly, building on top of the existing DAX systems in those operating systems (DAX - direct access - APIs being used for IO to memory-like devices, bypassing cache layers which are useful for more traditional storage types). This would allow a user to create a regular old storage volume in their NVDIMM for general use. https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/dax.txt Do note that NVDIMMs aren't a drop-in replacement for regular DRAM DIMMS, despite using the same bus and electrical subsystem. You'll need proper hardware support on your motherboard and CPU, since memory controllers are on CPU these days.