I fully agree, especially with your take on Optane. IMHO a great example for Intel's seemingly infinite ability to kill off some of their great technologies just before they would have taken off and made them serious money. Optane was (is) amazing. The combination of almost DRAM-like performance (throughput, latencies) with NAND-like non-volatility however at incredible endurance would (I believe) still sell like hotcakes (or HBM3E 😀). I was especially impressed with the DRAM stick formfactor of Optane. Even before AI, it was very attractive for applications like HANA. And Optane drives are still sought-after as solid-state caches for HDD backups. Just try to buy some used ones!
I fully agree, especially with your take on Optane. IMHO a great example for Intel's seemingly infinite ability to kill off some of their great technologies just before they would have taken off and made them serious money. Optane was (is) amazing. The combination of almost DRAM-like performance (throughput, latencies) with NAND-like non-volatility however at incredible endurance would (I believe) still sell like hotcakes (or HBM3E 😀). I was especially impressed with the DRAM stick formfactor of Optane. Even before AI, it was very attractive for applications like HANA. And Optane drives are still sought-after as solid-state caches for HDD backups. Just try to buy some used ones!