The end of Optane is bad news
Optane is magical and was mismanaged by both Micron and Intel.  The article doesn&#x27;t really express what we have lost.<p>The DIMMs were expensive and didn&#x27;t have broad compatibility. They should have made them in a regular DDR3&#x2F;4&#x2F;5 format and half the cost of main memory, or 2x to 4x the density for the same price. The density roadmap had them doubling in capacity with each generation. 1TB per DIMM slot.<p>The Register is right in that it was the newest thing to come along in 50 years. Reliability, performance, flexibility, all could have made huge strides under PMEM&#x2F;Optane architectures. Intel thought it had a golden goose (it did) and that the top profit margin enterprise workloads would flock to it.<p>Intel has everything it needs to succeed except for internal politics. But that is true of all large corpse these days. FPGA fabric built into the Optane DIMM would have been magic.