Will Intel still continue to develop super fast Optane drive and memory?

Will Intel still continue to develop super fast Optane drive and memory?

Will Intel still continue to develop super fast Optane drive and memory?

1000 times faster than flash memory, Intel Optane hard drive, memory is a bit hanging: the roadmap is not mentioned.

At the Intel Investor Conference a few days ago, the official roadmap for Core, Xeon, GPU and advanced technology was released, and I always imagined 2025.

However, at this conference, an important product disappeared, that is Optane Optane , which casts a cloud over its future.

In 2020 , Intel began to divest the memory chip business and sold the flash memory business to SK Hynix for $ 9 billion .

Now the transaction has been completed, but Intel retained the Optane business at that time. This advanced technology is intended to be controlled by itself. in hand.

As early as July 2015 , Intel and Micron announced the launch of a revolutionary memory chip , 3D Xpoint , which claims to be 1,000 times faster than NAND flash memory, 1,000 times more durable than current flash memory, and 10 times denser than NAND , making it the largest storage chip in 25 years. The biggest breakthrough in the chip.

The product based on the 3D Xpoint chip was named Optane by Intel . It has launched a number of products, including SSD and memory.

The core indicators such as speed, latency and reliability are indeed far superior to flash memory, but the gap of 1000 times is not.

At the beginning, it was highly valued, but now Optane seems to have been put into the cold palace.

Not only did we not see future Optane products in the roadmap, but even CEO Kissinger did not like to see it.

The German Golem website reported that Kissinger said that he had never seen it. Think of being in the memory business.

The ultimate fate of the Optane product line has not yet been determined, but it has led to huge losses in the past few years, which will definitely affect the opinion of Intel executives, with a loss of $ 576 million in 2020 and a loss of more than $ 1 billion in 2021 . , so that the person in charge of the Optane business was replaced.