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Wtf, I didn't realise they were shutting down Optane. Any alternative suppliers on the horizon for persistent memory?
by anonymousDan 4y ago
Wtf, I didn't realise they were shutting down Optane. Any alternative suppliers on the horizon for persistent memory?
- ksec 4y agoYes, but none of them are competitive. With Modern CPU you need Memory with ultra high bandwidth, which no persistent memory offers. With low latency storage it doesn't compete against Z-NAND or SLC NAND with special tuning.
- anonymousDan 4y agoThanks. Anything on the horizon that you are aware of?
- ksec 4y agoNot AFAIK, commercially speaking. At least not in the next 5 to 7 years. And I would love to be wrong. DRAM and NAND are so well optimised in terms of cost and scale ( Which was the reason why Optane failed to compete ). It is like the lithium Battery. Whenever there is a "Revolution Battery", it has to pass the check list [1]. [1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26354453 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26354453
- dragontamer 4y agoThe writing was on the wall when Micron pulled out of the partnership with 3dXpoint / Optane.
- georgeburdell 4y agoMany foundries, including Intel and TSMC, offer MRAM through their foundries. As far as I know, no plans for a customer to use it in the Optane space though