Liqid composes MemVerge DRAM and Optane memory pools
Composable systems supplier Liqid has added MemVerge’s BigMemory technology to its disaggregated resources list, enabling it to compose memory plus storage-class memory, like Optane, into its servers.
Liqid’s software composes...
Intel: Third-gen Optane to be announced in the coming weeks
Intel will soon announce its third-generation Optane products and is working on another iteration in the series. This was stated by Intel veep Kristie Mann during a Storage Field...
Brains behind Intrinsic Semiconductor Technology on ramifications of ReRAM
Intrinsic Semiconductor Technology is raising money to fund a foundry for its ReRAM chip and to build a memory compiler so microcontroller makers can replace SRAM with cheaper, simpler...
Nutanix paints go faster stripes on AOS 6.01 software, announces General Availability
A new version of Nutanix AOS software runs applications faster because of developments with vDisk multi-threading, Optane SSD tiering and retrieving stranded DRAM, the company says.
AOS v6.1 is...
Intel still has plans for 3D XPoint
Contrary to the implications of recent news and presentations, Intel says it is not backing away from 3D XPoint, confirming to B&F that it plans to enable "our third-generation Optane...
VAST Data grows to $300m bookings run rate in 3 years
VAST Data has sold enough of its all-flash array software to reach a $300m bookings run rate just three years after it first launched its product.
The Universal Storage offering...
Evidence for Intel’s gen-4 Optane program emerges
While checking out 3D XPoint's manufacturing location – Intel's Rio Rancho fab in New Mexico – we came across evidence that Intel had a gen-4 Optane development in April...
Cool it: Optane needs a DRAM fix, but legal restrictions may have hindered partner...
A claim that Optane cells can't be immediately read because they need to cool after being written has been rebuffed by Intel, but it declined to comment on suggestions contractual...
Optane’s 2020 half billion dollar operating loss
Intel made a greater than half-billion dollar loss on its Optane 3D XPoint business in 2020.
Update. Intel's Optane head leaves and $500 million revenue number claim added; 9 Feb...
ReRAM race ramps up – UK’s Intrinsic Semiconductor demos CMOS wafer success
UK university research spin-out Intrinsic Semiconductor Technology's ReRAM can be made on the same CMOS wafers as microcontrollers, enabling them to have embedded SRAM-speed non-volatile memory with no need...
Samsung demos MRAM chip with embedded compute for AI
Samsung has demonstrated an in-memory computing MRAM chip processing stored data, and accurately working on AI problems such as face detection. A Nature paper is coming to explain how...
Intel poaches Micron’s CFO to look after its own finances
Intel has hired a new EVP and CFO: David Zinsner has moved across from Micron, Intel’s former 3D XPoint manufacturing partner, where he held the same positions.
On January 17...