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

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 ...

Intel may be selling its NAND division to storage rival SK Hynix, but the company will nonetheless introduce a newer, faster M.2 670P SSD, along with an updated Optane Memory drive. Intel is ...

This article is part of the Technology Insight series, made possible with funding from Intel. Optane media may get all the buzz, but it’s Optane’s various modes that make it even more powerful in ...

In a computer, the entire memory can be separated into different levels based on access time and capacity. Figure 1 shows different levels in the memory hierarchy. Smaller and faster memories are kept ...

In the eighties, computer processors became faster and faster, while memory access times stagnated and hindered additional performance increases. Something had to be done to speed up memory access and ...