Intel delivers new memory and storage breakthroughs

Source: Intel. Intel's vision of persistent memory enhances both memory and storage depicted as a tier in a pyramid, the memory storage hierarchy. The tier is now split into performance and capacity where persistent memory provides capacity for memory requirements, and performance for storage requirements.
Source: Intel. Intel Optane persistent memory is technology that bridges the gap between SSDs, traditionally used for storage, and DRAM, traditionally used for memory.

Intel has launched six new memory and storage products at its Memory and Storage 2020 event on December 16, 2020.

With these Intel Optane technology announcements, Intel continues to establish a new tier in the data centre memory and storage pyramid which combines the attributes of both DRAM and NAND. Intel Optane SSDs alleviate data supply bottlenecks and accelerate applications with fast caching and fast storage to increase scale-per-server and reduce transaction costs for latency-sensitive workloads, the company said.

There are two new additions to its Intel Optane Solid State Drive (SSD) Series: the Intel Optane SSD P5800X, billed as the world’s fastest data centre SSD, and the Intel Optane Memory H20 for client, which features performance and mainstream productivity for gaming and content creation. Optane helps meet the needs of modern computing by bringing the memory closer to the CPU.

“With the release of these new Optane products, we continue our innovation, strengthen our memory and storage portfolio, and enable our customers to better navigate the complexity of digital transformation. Optane products and technologies are becoming a mainstream element of business compute. And as a part of Intel, these leadership products are advancing our long-term growth priorities, including AI, 5G networking and the intelligent, autonomous edge,” said Alper Ilkbahar, Intel VP in the Data Platforms Group and GM of the Intel Optane Group.

Intel Optane persistent memory is Intel’s vision of a memory and storage solution that offers persistence, capacity, affordability, low latency and memory-like speed. With Intel Optane persistent memory, Intel has re-architected the memory and storage hierarchy, allowing a two-tiered memory architecture where DRAM is the performance tier and persistent memory is the capacity tier. In the case of storage, Optane persistent memory is used as the performance tier while NAND solutions form the capacity tier.

Intel Optane persistent memory is attached to the CPU via the double-data rate bus, enabling direct load-and-store access at DRAM speeds. As it is non-volatile (data is retained even when the power goes off), it combines the best elements of memory and storage.

The company further revealed its intent to deliver its 3rd generation of Intel Optane persistent memory (codenamed Crow Pass) for cloud and enterprise customers as it strengthens and extends its memory and storage portfolio. There will also be future Intel Xeon Scalable processors (codenamed Sapphire Rapids).

Intel also announced three new NAND SSDs featuring 144-layer cell memory: the Intel SSD 670p, the company’s next-gen 144-layer quad-level-cell (QLC) 3D NAND SSD for mainstream computing; the Intel SSD D7-P5510, the world’s first-to-market 144-layer triple-level-cell (TLC) NAND design; and the Intel SSD D5-P5316, a greater-density, higher-endurance SSD built around the industry’s first 144-layer QLC NAND.

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