Optane has long occupied a kind of no man's land in personal computing, but Intel aims to change that with its latest drive. Known as 3D XPoint before the "Optane" rebrand, the technology exists as a ...

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

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Intel has announced a hybrid SSD. It combines NAND and Optane technology onto a single device. It ...

If you've forgone the best SSD for gaming in favour of a high-capacity hard drive, Intel's Optane cards help boost the access speeds of your mechanical disk to rival those found on a solid state.

Page 1: Intel Optane Memory H20: The Latest Optane Media Accelerates QLC 3D NAND For this next set of tests, we're going to do something a little different. One of the Optane Memory H20 drive's main ...

Intel has a new consumer-targeted storage product, called Optane H20—as in H twenty, not water. The new device is an M.2 2280 format drive, using QLC (Quad Level Cell) NAND storage running behind an ...

Kioxia has introduced two generations of its XL-Flash storage class memory (SCM), a high-speed type of NAND memory originally designed to compete with Optane SSD technology by providing new levels of ...

As an Amazon Associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. TweakTown may also earn commissions from other affiliate partners at no extra cost to you. Intel announced they would not be continuing their ...

Back in February we speculated that Intel might drop its Optane memory business. In its latest earning release, Intel stated that “in Q2 2022, we initiated the winding down of our Intel Optane memory ...

Intel and Micron ran a joint development and production program for the Phase Change Memory know as 3D XPoint. This semiconductor non-volatile memory product is faster and more durable than NAND flash ...

Intel's marketing for Optane has always been confusing—the company tends to call it "persistent memory" rather than storage, but ultimately it's a different type of SSD.