Intel Optane, RIP

Another division of Intel dies

When Intel first announced the technology, at IDF 2015 if I remember correctly, I was sitting next to a very sceptical Dave Eggleston, the VP of Embedded Memory technology at GlobalFoundries. Lots of big promises were made - a new memory that was bit addressable, ‘almost as fast as DRAM’, but non-volatile. Sitting somewhere between DRAM and SSDs, it pla…