Is amd finished?
Dram/storage merging
>Speed is not a problem: Physics determines what the speed will be, and that’s already well known. The native speed of a 3D XPoint chip is closer to that of a DRAM than to that of NAND flash
>Intel’s current Optane SSD offering is priced at about half the price of DRAM
Optane is such bullshit, laptop manufacturers have been including Optane memory inside RAM counts.
eg 24GB RAM for a 8GB DDR4/16GB Optane system.
AMD can just do NVRAM
No. Intel's claim about the speed turned out to be wildly optimistic - this is well known, have you been under a rock for the last five years? - and the actual speed will be matched or beaten by the next generation of chinkshit SSDs.
Pushing a technology with limited write cycles into use as main memory is being done for one reason and one reason only: planned obsolescence. Intel (and other computer and component makers) want PCs that will reliably wear out and need replacing after a few years.
>Still wanting to buy any thing jewtel shits out...
JUST
Especially now even the new laptops have decent quad core cpus and should last a good 10 years honestly unless something crazy happens. But im sure the Intel(tm) Thermal management(tm) enginge(tm) will fix this issue
Dual core is enough and laptops last already 9+ years.
They've been claiming that XPoint and Optane will replace RAM but it's not there yet, not even close.
You don't even get any significant benefit over NVMe.
Currently available Optane modules aren't anywhere close to RAM speed-wise, and the endurance isn't orders of magnitude higher than NAND despite Intel's claims. So it sits at a weird point where it isn't cost-effective as storage outside of very specific scenarios, and it can't replace RAM either.