Intel Optane memory might sound like a new standard of RAM, but it has more in common with modern storage solutions like solid state drives (SSDs). Yet it’s designed to supplant SSDs in some ways — ...

The disk drive in your computer is used to store the operating system components, installed software programs, and your personal data files (documents, pictures, music, video, etc.). Disk drives are ...

Intel's Optane Memory technology, introduced a few years back, was originally designed to speed up a PC's hard drive without adding the expense of a full-fledged solid-state drive (SSD). A combination ...

It isn’t only the junk processor that makes a really cheap computer slow. Or the memory or the video card (or lack of video card). The primary reason your cheap laptop loudly chugs along at glacial ...

‘We‘re going to help with providing the solutions, the training or even offering programs or incentives for them to become champions, so that they become educated on the product and how to use it. And ...

Luke Lancaster is an Associate Editor with CNET, based out of Australia. He spends his time with games (both board and video) and comics (both reading and writing). Intel Optane memory is making a lot ...

While 3D XPoint memory has been shipping as Optane from Intel for two years, it hasn't found a great deal of traction, but a new server DIMM and an upcoming Micron product release may change that.

Dec. 16, 2020 — What’s New: Today, at Intel’s Memory and Storage 2020 event, the company highlighted six new memory and storage products to help customers meet the challenges of digital transformation ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More By now, you’ve seen the word “Optane” bandied about on VentureBeat (such ...

Optane Memory uses a "least recently used" (LRU) approach to determine what gets stored in the fast cache. All initial data reads come from the slower HDD storage, and the data gets copied over to the ...

Recently, HP announced it's Pavilion All-in-One 27 PC with 16GB of Intel Optane Memory, making it one of the first PCs to ship with fast caching storage. This announcement indeed created a buzz in the ...