Intel launches three new Optane drives. One is world’s fastest data centre SSD
Intel has launched three new Optane drives, all faster than their predecessors, including one it dubs “the world’s fastest data centre SSD”.
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Micron to duke it out with Optane on memory
Micron told the Sanford C. Bernstein Operational Decisions Conference last week that it has 3D XPoint SSD and memory DIMM roadmaps. This will take the company into direct competition...
Intel optimises Ice Lake Servers for the ‘convergence of HPC and AI’
Intel’s Ice Lake servers will unblock storage performance by reading data faster and loading it into a larger memory space. Storage writes are quicker too - that’s because Ice...
Optane PMem ‘dramatically outperforms’ rival SCMs, says Hazelcast
Interview; Storage IO slows down applications and there is nothing you can do about it, except by not doing it. In-memory computing accelerates applications to sprint speed by having...
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Watch out Samsung: SK hynix confirms buy of Intel’s NAND fab and SSD business
South Korean memory semiconductor supplier SK hynix will pay $9bn to buy Intel's NAND foundry and SSD business, it has been confirmed.
SK hynix is paying 208 trillion won...
ESG validates WekaIO’s file system with benchmark trio: NetApp and Intel have individual wins
Analyst and consultancy firm ESG has validated WekaIO’s scale-out, parallel file system performance in three benchmarks - SPEC SFS 2014, IO-500, and STAC-M3 - finding it generally goes a...
Optane in the membrane: How Intel’s memory-storage technology faces two ways
Analysis Like the Roman god Janus, Intel’s Optane technology faces two ways, to memory and to storage, and that has made adoption harder, because it is neither memory fish...
Flash Memory Summit 2020: Tech hints on computational storage, ruler drives and Smart...
The annual Flash Memory Summit has gone virtual and a freshly unveiled agenda provides tantalising hints about what’s coming and what may not be coming down the storage pike.
The...
3D XPoint patent suit against Micron and Intel is allowed to proceed
A US lawsuit filed two years ago by the liquidator of a bankrupt patent company against Intel and Micron has been allowed to proceed. The ruling issued on October...
Intel tech and Lightbits Labs make NVMe/TCP faster
Lightbits Labs is working with Intel to make its NVMe/TCP all-flash arrays almost as fast as RoCe and InfiniBand options, which require much more expensive cabling.
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