But what exactly is Optane, and what is it good for? (Analytics and AI, to name two major use cases.) If you’re not feeling up to speed, don’t worry. We’ll have you covered on all the basics in the ...

For years, Intel Optane seemed destined to reshape how we store data in computers. It promised to bridge the gap between blazing-fast RAM and practical storage, with latency and consistency that ...

At CES this year, Intel announced its Optane H10 Memory Solution -- a novel idea for combining Optane and new, quad-level cell NAND on the same M.2 card. It's an adaptation of the same caching idea we ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Solid-state drives offer much faster read and write speeds over their traditional hard drive counterparts. However, they're often limited in ...

Kioxia has introduced two generations of its XL-Flash storage class memory (SCM), a high-speed type of NAND memory originally designed to compete with Optane SSD technology by providing new levels of ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...