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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Intel launched its Optane memory storage accelerators. The new drives, based on 3D XPoint technology, aren't really faster than the SSD cache drives we've written about in the past, ...

For several decades, the semiconductor industry has been looking for alternative memory technologies to fill the gap between dynamic random-access memory (DRAM), the compute system’s main memory, and ...