Division DRAMeXchange TrendForce company issued a press release in which it reported on possible plans for Intel's conclusion on the market SSD-drives on a new type of non-volatile memory. This so-called memory 3D XPoint, which is "1000 times faster NAND-flash and 1000 times more resistant to wear . However, experimental tests of Intel products in the Memory 3D XPoint did not showed not a decisive advantage over SSD on NAND-Flash . In terms of IOPS drives Memory 3D XPoint about 7 times faster drives on NAND MLC, and the delay in reading is less than 8 times.
According to experts DRAMeXchange, Intel plans to supply the market in the third quarter 2016. Since this period is planned release of a new computing platform, Intel in the face of 14-nm processors Kaby Lake (Skylake refresh), then most likely, SSD Optane appear in the new platform.
It is interesting to note that the SSD Intel Optane able to increase competition among the highest performance SSD. Experts see it as a battle in the segment between Intel and Samsung.