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Micron Gears Up For Its Potential Datacenter Memory Boom
If you don’t like gut-wrenching, hair-raising, white-knuckling boom bust cycles, then do not go into the memory business. …
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Compute
Like Flash, 3D XPoint Enters The Datacenter As Cache
In the datacenter, flash memory took off first as a caching layer between processors and their cache memories and main memory and the ridiculously slow disk drives that hang off the PCI-Express bus on the systems. …
Enterprise
Intel Reveals Plans For Optane 3D XPoint Memory
Chip makers and partners Intel and Micron Technology unveiled their jointly developed and manufactured 3D XPoint memory three weeks ago to much fanfare, but it is still perhaps sinking in to system architects and future system buyers how dramatic a move this is and how much it will change the memory hierarchy in systems and the applications that ride on it. …
Enterprise
Flash Disruption Comes To Server Main Memory
Flash memory is cheap, but it isn’t fast, at least not by the standards of DRAM. …