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Intel really missed out, when they discontinued the Optane line, right before the RAMpocalypse.
by dlcarrier 3mo ago
Intel really missed out, when they discontinued the Optane line, right before the RAMpocalypse.
- Weryj 3mo agoWasn’t quite right before, but Optane was sold off, so it’s sad the buyer just sat on the IP. Also the selling point was latency, but I suspect we’ll see bandwidth being the important metric with AI using deep pipelines to stream in the weights in a latency insensitive manner.
- PunchyHamster 3mo agoOptane latency was low enough that it could be drop-in RAM replacement for models. Bandwidth is just "stack more of them"
- dlcarrier 3mo agoIntel and Micron sold off the fab making Optane, but I haven't heard anything about them selling off the design rights, not there's much they can do without the fab that could make them.
- QuarterReptile 3mo agoIt's maybe more maddening when you realize it was part of Intel getting completely out of memory, so that stings a bit. On the other hand, Intel needed focus rather than the multi-pronged MBA-driven mediocrity they'd been pursuing.