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You are making the author's point for them :-). Now add in that some of the stuff that was "custom hardware" that supported the concept of 'always resident' OS
by ChuckMcM 6y ago
You are making the author's point for them :-). Now add in that some of the stuff that was "custom hardware" that supported the concept of 'always resident' OS state is now off the shelf (specifically Optane/Crosspoint stuff) Of course Intel killed of consumer Optane for SSDs so one wonders what is going on there.
The second point, about how to think about GPUs in the context of "modern" computing is, for me, the more interesting one. As mobile processors have for years been a GPU with a processor accessory laptops and desktop computers seem to be headed that way as well. To be honest I'm surprised there isn't a GPU "motherboard that you can plug one or two CPU daughter cards into.
- juancampa 6y agoI wasn't aware that intel killed Optane-Only SSDs for consumers so I looked up and here's a recent article about it: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane-only-ssds-for-consumers-no-replacements-planned https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-kills-off-all-optane...
- Teknoman117 6y agoI think the answer as to why Optane consumer SSDs were killed off is fairly clear. They were 5 or 6 times the price per gigabyte as NAND based SSDs and didn't offer more performance in most consumer applications. The SOHO community didn't like them all that much either because the consumer Optane SSDs lacked most of the low queue depth performance that the enterprise disks are known for. Most consumers are also replacing their SSDs long before they actually wear out, so the extreme durability of Optane is kind of moot there. It's a fantastic enterprise product, but I don't think most consumers are really getting any extra value out of them over NAND at this point. The only guy I knew who bought one wanted to put their Gentoo build directory (/var/tmp/portage) on it.