A lot of folks believe that when Intel’s Optane is gone there will be nothing left but the story of its rise and fall. That is far from the truth. Optane has created a legacy of developments that will find use in computing for quite some time.
In this three-part series The SSD Guy blog reviews Optane’s lasting legacy to reveal six changes that it has brought to computing architecture in its short lifetime.
Each of the three parts covers two new developments:
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- New programming paradigm & instructions
- New approach to 2-speed memory & latency handling
- New approach to memory expansion & security
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This second post will cover Continue reading “Optane’s Legacy, Part II: Two-Speed Memory and Latency Handling”