vibranium Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Intel's next generation SSD memory products, due to ship in the third quarter of 2016, will shake up the high-end SSD market, claims TrendForce. The Intel non-volatile memory technology known as 3D XPoint will be the basis of products to be sold under the name Optane, which promise speeds over seven times faster than traditional SSDs, complementing the company's Kaby Lake CPUs. According to TrendForce, the technology will be a strong threat to the current memory market leader Samsung, especially in the high-end range of the spectrum. Samsung's new memory products, which are currently under development and scheduled for launch in the middle of 2016, will incorporate the company's technological strengths in both DRAM and NAND Flash manufacturing. 3D XPoint memory greatly surpasses the current mainstream products in efficiency and endurance. Not only are they on average over seven times as fast in terms of IOPS (input/output operations per second) and over eight times as quick in terms of read latency period, these new generation SSDs will have a high endurance level (measured in program/erase, or P/E, cycles) comparable to that of SLC-SSDs. Intel will introduce 3D XPoint to both the high-end server and the PC markets, with PC-OEMs sampling the Optane products in the middle of 2016. During the client sampling period, Intel will also be launching its latest processor platform Kaby Lake that are designed to support the new memory technology. According to the analysts, Optane's arrival will first impact the high-end Flash SSD market because the new class of memory will be between most DRAM and NAND Flash memory products in price per gigabyte. Source Comment: This is a game-changer. According to preliminary figures, SSDs should see serious performance increase and price reductions. In a couple of years, Optane based DIMMs will make the "overclocking DDR4" look like toys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Another leap in memory technology. Looking for such a leap in battery tech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anga Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Any idea where the improvements in endurance are coming from? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rudrax Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 33 minutes ago, anga said: Any idea where the improvements in endurance are coming from? These things are kept *Classified* by Intel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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