Modern SSDs are great, but Intel's discontinued alternative could have been the future

If you wanted the space of a hard drive, but the speed of an SSD, there weren't many options. Intel aimed to change that with ...
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The forgotten Intel drive that was faster than any SSD

Several factors converged to ultimately kill Optane. First, the market simply didn't embrace it the way Intel hoped. Consumer ...
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Intel kills off Optane Memory, writes off $559 million inventory

Intel has fully killed off its Optane Memory business, a line of memory that was slightly slower than RAM but offered persistent memory and high input/output operations per second. The company said ...
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Report: Optane DIMMs Provide Only Modest Performance Improvements

When Intel unveiled Optane in 2015, it declared it had created a fundamentally new type of memory that could revolutionize the industry. Four years later, signs of that revolution have been hard to ...