RIP Optane/XPoint

By: Gionatan Danti (g.danti.delete@this.assyoma.it), August 1, 2022 6:07 am
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Adrian (a.delete@this.acm.org) on August 1, 2022 2:15 am wrote:
> AFAIK, Intel has never given any information about the materials used.

I doubt that material availability or production difficulty were the main motivations after Intel's decision to cancel Optane.

From a technical standpoint, even relatively low capacity 3DXPoint can be very useful for non-volatile read or write cache (ie: think using it for storing incoming writes on HDD or SSD).

I suppose Intel's decision roots in the fatal reason for many products cancellation: lower than expected margins. It seems a recurring problem for Intel, destroying many products which, albeit very profitable, show less margins than high-priced server CPU.

Its NAND production had basically the same fate some years ago, and now even enterprise SSDs are outside Intel's offer (with client SSDs being cancelled ~10 years ago).

Maybe it is a fine thing to do from management standpoint, but very sad at a technical level.

Just my 2c.
Regards.
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