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Intel to Deliver 3DxPoint Memory this year

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Arthur Hanson

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Intel has confirmed that the MU/INTC partnership will deliver 3DxPoint before the end of this year. It looks like this is the beginning for a whole new range of memory technologies not based on the transistor. It should be the beginning of exciting times in the memory game. This is but one of several exciting memory technologies on the horizon. This should change the game in many areas, especially mobile with its very low power consumption. Does anyone else see any other memory technologies coming in the near future?


Intel confirms 2016 arrival of 3D XPoint-based Optane SSD
 
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It looks like Intel's first product is an SSD form-factor storage device, followed by a DIMM device. I'd guess that the DIMM market is much larger than a faster SSD. What will be interesting is how Micron delivers the same technology to the market, will they compete directly with Intel or do something different to complement what Intel offers?
 
I expect 3D XPoint competitors from the other major memory companies. SanDisk/Toshiba are working on a RRAM based competitor, I would bet Samsung and SK Hynix also have something in the works.

Beyond that I expect MRAM to start taking off as embedded memory this decade and as a 3D technology to replace DRAM in the next decade.
 
Daniel Payne said:
It looks like Intel's first product is an SSD form-factor storage device, followed by a DIMM device. I'd guess that the DIMM market is much larger than a faster SSD.
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I believe NVDIMMs are a niche product. It's basically a DIMM that retains it's memory after losing power. They only work on servers with special motherboard and OS support.
 
Hi Scotten--I'm sure you are right that the general memory market is >> SSD. However, SSD is now standard in high performance cloud resources, so that increases demand, and it is pretty standard for high performance notebooks, so that is some more demand, and then tablets and even some phones use SSD. Depending on whose data you believe, Intel has been struggling with SSD share, and this could be the game changer.
 
eafpres said:
Hi Scotten--I'm sure you are right that the general memory market is >> SSD. However, SSD is now standard in high performance cloud resources, so that increases demand, and it is pretty standard for high performance notebooks, so that is some more demand, and then tablets and even some phones use SSD. Depending on whose data you believe, Intel has been struggling with SSD share, and this could be the game changer.
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I don't understand your comment, I didn't make any statements about the general memory market, I just commented on new memory technologies.
 
Sorry, I see it was unclear and I made an invalid connection of your comment to the previous one that the initial release would be SSD. I really should have replied to Daniel.

All I was trying to say is that SSD is becoming more important over time, especially in cloud as well as consumer.

Again, sorry for the over-stretching that went on in my mind. :)
 
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