Tencent digital hearing (Eskimo) long, PC industry has been trying to develop new technologies to fill the gap between the speed of RAM and hard disk. Last year, Intel and Micron jointly announced an intermediate technology called 3D XPoint. And this week, more relevant information was also announced.
This summer, Intel disclosed some details of 3D XPoint in its quarterly earnings report. Intel President Brian Krzanich mentioned that the Optane SSD based on 3D XPoint technology will come out at the end of 2016. 3D XPoint and other memory technologies can actually be a short-term solution to the slowdown in Intel's memory business.
Potential applications for 3D XPoint can range from consumer/commercial SSD consolidation to machine learning and cloud big data. Video games can also benefit from this technology, because the latter can bring 5-10 times the current SSD speed increase.
According to the information disclosed this week, Optane 8000p will become Intel's first SSD based on 3D XPoint. It has 16GB and 32GB of storage capacity and uses 2 PCIe channels for data transmission. In terms of performance, 16GB version of random 4K read/write speed is 285000/70000 IOPS, 32GB version is 300000/120000 IOPS, and in the continuous 128KB read/write, 16GB version is 1400/300 MBps. , 32GB version is 1600/500 MBps.
It's worth noting that Optane is only compatible with Kaby Lake and newer processor models, but Intel's support for operating systems is even more generous, including 64-bit Windows 7, 8.1, and 10.
Intel and Magnesium's 3D XPoint-based products will be a higher density, non-volatile alternative to DRAM, while providing higher write life and speed performance than current SSDs.
As Intel president mentioned in the summer, both Intel and Micron are hoping to bring Optane to market by the end of this year.
Source: DigitalTrends