Intel has long been talking about intentions to start deliveries of solid-state drives family Optane based on the type of memory 3D XPoint, moreover promises to offer them to the consumer segment of the first. Server Platform Purley will get a supported storage devices based on 3D XPoint only in the second generation.
As told on Friday the resource DigiTimes, Intel company supplies storage samples with 3D XPoint type memory the third quarter of this year, but mass production will be expanded in the second quarter 2017. In addition to client systems, these drives will go to servers. Intel hopes that the start of mass production of memory type 3D XPoint will allow the company to rectify their business profitability for the production of memory chips.