Created by engineers from Intel and Micron, the non-volatile 3D XPoint memory is designed to replace NAND memory in solid state (SSD) drives and DRAM as part of RAM modules. A month ago, Intel began to supply SSDs on 3D XPoint memory to the market under the Optane brand. In the form of DIMM-modules new memory will appear on the market in 2018. This is reported on the official page of the company.
The first public demonstration working system with a memory array from DIMM 3D XPoint modules was held recently in the fields of the SAP Sapphire conference in Orlando. The representative of Intel showed how the system behaves and, in particular, the SAP HANA database when the application is launched on the 3D XPoint array. This memory does not need regeneration operations and is not afraid of shutting down the system. In addition, it is much denser than DRAM memory. Running databases
on arrays from non-volatile memory of a new type, are sure in Intel, will change the entire previous paradigm of computing devices. Instead of expensive, slow and losing information when the memory is turned off, the industry will get affordable, capacious and constantly storing data memory. Even without power.
Memory DIMM 3D XPoint will complement the updated family of Intel Xeon Scalable processors. The new family will be released with the encoding in the form of breakdown by classes, which the company will encrypt with the names of precious metals: platinum, gold, silver and bronze. This will be the Xeon generation of Skylake (we are waiting for them in the summer). Models Xeon Scalable Skylake Refresh, which are the first to support the memory of DIMM 3D XPoint, are still hidden behind the code
name Cascade Lake. You can expect that they will be Xeon Kaby Lake.
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