![]() To produce second-gen Optane, Intel has also opened up a new technology development line at the Fab 11X facility in Rio Rancho, New Mexico. The slide above is an Intel-produced teaser of the Alder Stream SSD performance compared to the previous generation. Intel will also be using a second-generation controller as part of the Optane 2 solution, though it would not be drawn into many details about what this will look like other than saying that the SSD controller will have a different number of channels to the seven-channel design found in the P4800X (and the consumer equivalents, the Optane SSD 900p and 905p). While official products and specifications are yet to be confirmed, we do know that second-gen Optane shifts from a two-deck 3D XPoint stack to a four-deck one, so it would hardly be surprising if the Persistent Memory DIMMs and/or Optane SSDs double in capacity. The second is codenamed Alder Stream, and this will be a family of enterprise Optane SSDs that follow on from the Intel SSD DC P4800X/P4801X lines. ![]() The first is Barlow Pass, which is the codename for the second generation of Intel Optane DC Persistent Memory, which serves as high-capacity memory for server CPUs using the DDR4 DIMM form factor. Now, Intel has confirmed that second-gen Optane is scheduled to launch next year alongside 14nm Cooper Lake and 10nm Ice Lake Xeon Scalable CPUs for datacentre/server customers in two flavours. ![]() ![]() These characteristics bring it closer to DRAM, but compared to that it has a lower cost per gigabyte and vastly improved scalability. Like NAND, it is non-volatile, but it operates with much lower latency and has far higher endurance and performance consistency. Intel has given high-level details about the next generation of its Optane technology at the Memory and Storage Day 2019 in Seoul, Korea, revealing it will arrive for datacentre customers next year while also showing off an early demo of the DIMM-based Persistent Memory implementation running on a Windows-based workstation.Ĭurrently available in everything from consumer-grade, high-speed caching modules all the way up to datacentre memory solutions, Optane is Intel’s attempt to bridge the gap between NAND and DRAM in the memory and storage hierarchy. ![]()
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