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What was wrong with Optane?

• jiggawatts 3y ago
  It was supposed to be cheaper than the equivalent amount of ordinary DRAM but ended up more expensive and slower.
  • networkchad 3y ago
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• tester756 3y ago
  There was nothing wrong with Optane (I'm talking about non-volatile memory, it is important because there were a few products under Optane name) I believe that was/is impressive tech. You could have disk and ram in one stick aka kinda unified memory. Think of it: instead of purchasing RAM+Disk, you purchase one stick and configure it as e.g 40% of the capacity works as a disk and 60% as a "RAM". But saying that they "cancelled" doesn't tell the whole story. IIRC: they couldnt find a fab which would produce them after Micron sold their fab.
• panick21_ 3y ago
  It wasn't better at being ram then dram and it wasn't better at being persistent store then flash. The amount of application where it was actually better was very few. And unlike flash and dram it had no huge commodity market to drive down the price. This podcast has a lot of interesting discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6a_32vvbU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf6a_32vvbU