The Intel Optane acted as a go-between that worked to increase HDD speeds by increasing memory capacities. Due to its expense ...

Several factors converged to ultimately kill Optane. First, the market simply didn't embrace it the way Intel hoped. Consumer ...

Optane has long occupied a kind of no man's land in personal computing, but Intel aims to change that with its latest drive. Known as 3D XPoint before the "Optane" rebrand, the technology exists as a ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...

But what exactly is Optane, and what is it good for? (Analytics and AI, to name two major use cases.) If you’re not feeling up to speed, don’t worry. We’ll have you covered on all the basics in the ...

Optane is available in several drive formats and in as a direct replacement for DRAM. Some of Intel's high-end Xeon CPUs support multi-terabyte Optane deployments and support a mix of DRAM and Optane ...

Intel has announced a number of Optane and NAND storage devices coming to market in 2021, with a 3rd-generation Optane product on the roadmap thereafter. Share on Facebook (opens in a new window) ...

Intel will begin shipping its next-generation non-volatile Optane memory for PCs beginning April 24. Intel, which developed the Optane memory with its partner Micron under the name “3D Xpoint,” said ...

One technology that Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) has been promoting for quite some time is 3D XPoint, a new non-volatile memory technology that it co-developed with memory specialist Micron (NASDAQ: MU). 3D ...

Anyone got a good guide for moving Win10 install to a new SSD drive? Difficulty: I have an Intel "Optane" 60GB SSD that is set up as some sort of RAM-Drive like deal and am not sure exactly how that ...

Optane had the issue that it never came down to easy prices at good sizes, before mostly becoming obsolete. The pcie 4 Optane version has twice the random IOPS as the newest flash drives, but half the ...