![]() ![]() (Intel abruptly stopped using the 3D XPoint development name early this year.) Intel will hand Micron the keys to IM Flash Technologies's fab facility in Lehi, Utah, and in turn it will open its new fab in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. Micron's upcoming QuantX product news and Intel's latest plans for Optane is set against the backdrop of the two companies ending their 13-year memory development partnership created under their joint venture IM Flash Technologies LLC. Intel's Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM first arrived in April with the current Cascade Lake line of Xeon Scalable data center processors instead of with its Skylake processor as originally planned. IntelĬurrently, there are four generations in development for Optane DC Persistent memory, according to Kristie Mann, Intel's senior director of product management for non-volatile memory solutions. ![]() Intel also announced plans for a second generation Optane SSD, code named Alder Stream. Both are expected to ship next year, Intel said. Intel, which first targeted the PC/gamer community with its Optane memory - touting faster boot ups and game load times - this week announced plans to ship its second generation Optane memory (code named Barlow Pass) in a DIMM form factor for use in big data analytics environments and cloud service providers along side its third generation quad-level cell (QLC, 4 bits per cell) 3D SSDs. Things may about be about to changeĪfter plans to release their product two years ago, Micron is now saying it expects to ship QuantX before the end of this year. "Intel’s SSDs were probably equally profitable to everyone else’s, so the loss comes after all of the NAND SSD profits got gobbled up. That trend continued into 2018, and has worsened this year, he said. While all the other NAND makers were basically printing money in 2017, Handy quipped, Intel was losing money in its Nonvolatile Solutions Group, which only sells NAND SSDs and Optane. It had darn-well-better catch on." Objective Analysis "They're losing a lot of money on Optane. "Given that the first shipments were in spring 2017, I would expect more," said Jim Handy, director of research at Objective Analysis. While Intel insists it has sold "millions" of Optane SSDs, revenue from those sales is still lackluster. ![]()
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