I don't think it's "gone forever" it's just gonna sleep for a while like "dumb terminals" now we have a hybrid with tons of cloud apps (and most things headed t

I don't think it's "gone forever" it's just gonna sleep for a while like "dumb terminals" now we have a hybrid with tons of cloud apps (and most things headed that way) and local apps and mixes of the two where it makes more sense. The same will happen with something like optane. I'm surprised they didn't push it more in "larger" embedded systems since it would have benefitted well from that NVRAM goodness, probably more so than PCs and cloud compute.