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I worked at a telco when Optane was announced and launched; we had an Intel account manager and quarterly business meetings with them. I lobbied hard for some
by sgt101 3y ago
I worked at a telco when Optane was announced and launched; we had an Intel account manager and quarterly business meetings with them.
I lobbied hard for some samples, but they simply would not provide them. I think that if we were representative of how they acted this may be the reason they never got buyin. If we had had those parts maybe we would have implemented the POC's we were planning, and those POC's may have made it to production and the portfolio of the time. Perhaps there would have been a good market ready for 2015.
- lstodd 3y agoYeah, this. Intel was all talk and zero samples, not even a demo. So back then we just shrugged and moved on.
- jiggawatts 3y agoLiterally unoptaneium?
- lstodd 3y agoPretty much. I remember sitting through those pitches and being like "Ok, you don't have any idea how and where to apply this new thing of yours, which is understandable, but then you are unwilling to let anybody have a shot at it. What I'm doing here then?". IDK what they were thinking, but the general mood was "oh, another Itanic".
- PedroBatista 3y ago2015 was peak arrogance years for Intel. Even lifelong fanboys started to hate them, it was just too much. In the end optane was a “cool, nice to know and play around” product with a real market way smaller than Intel was prepared to support.