Last week, Intel announced its new Optane drives meant for server and HPC configurations. Today, the company is announcing its PC client version. The new drives will ship in 16GB and 32GB capacities.

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 ...

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 ...

Lenovo’s ThinkPad T570 is a loaded laptop that boasts a range of whiz-bang technologies, but the ability to run Intel’s secretive Optane memory stands out. When it ships in March, the T570 will be ...

Intel is no longer producing Optane 3D XPoint, but the storage class memory product is leaving behind a legacy that could continue to influence products yet to come to market. Optane's demise came ...

All businesses must make big bets from time to time, and the successful ones know when to walk away from a gamble that didn't turn out the way they had hoped. Intel did just this at the end of July ...

Intel has unveiled a new tier of Optane storage -- one designed to bridge the gap between volatile and non-volatile memory and create a new class of "Persistent" memory in the process. Share on ...