Posted on Friday, April 28 2017 @ 13:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Speaking about the Optane memory technology, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich
revealed the ramp up of this technology will be slow. He said Optane is expected to account for around 5 percent of Intel's memory business this year, but that it should become a larger percentage into next year and beyond:
Brian M. Krzanich - Intel Corp.
Partly because remember, more and more of that business will become things like 3D XPoint slash Optane. And bits will be a little bit different there, right, not all bits are going to be created equal. That's a very differentiating technology. It's really got performance of DRAM-like devices with NAND non-volatility and pricing in between. And so those bits are a bit different than, say, typical NAND bits, and I wouldn't want to just lump those all into a standard number. So we need to think about how we'd really go and present this to you if you want to think about it from a bit standpoint. And that, it's around 5% of the business this year. But as you go out into next year and beyond, it becomes a larger and larger percentage as we see more and more products, especially in the data centers, use the Optane technology.
