Intel discusses its upcoming Optane DC persistent memory

[HEXUS]

Now sampling, memory will be supported by next gen Xeon CPUs in data centres.

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[3dcandy]

I like how Optane SSD's are warm when in reality the price has put many off

[Ttaskmaster]

But will it light up, like the 905P?

[philehidiot]

If it's warm enough, it'll definitely light up.

[Luke7]

Why have they styled those heatsinks to look like floppy disk shutters?

[Ttaskmaster]

Why have they styled those heatsinks to look like floppy disk shutters?

Have you not seen what on at the cinema and on TV?
Reboots and remakes of things from the 80s are dead in-fashion and En Vogue at the minute!

[DanceswithUnix]

Interesting commentary from Charlie:

https://semiaccurate.com/2018/05/31/...xpoint-launch/

[3dcandy]

Quickly read the above. Kinda reinforces what I thought...

There is a reason this hasn't been done before, and a reason xpoint ssd's are expensive. They are overprovisioned to hell to make the endurance last. In a DIMM they would not last long...