There is a special presence in Intel's SSD product line, optane. A few years ago, Intel made great efforts to promote it, but because of the high price, it failed to popularize it on the consumer platform and turned to the enterprise level. The core of aoteng is 3D xpoint chip, which is a storage particle based on phase change technology. Intel not only relies on it to build durable memory products with ultra-high capacity, but also solid state drives with extremely low latency and high speed.
However, 3D xpoint is a cooperative product of Intel and micron, but micron has withdrawn from 3D xpoint research and development, and Lehi, the main manufacturer, is also owned by micron from a joint venture. Aoteng's future is full of variables.
In mid April this year, at a closed door technical conference, Intel announced the latest aoteng roadmap, which clearly will not give up this line. The third generation of persistent memory (launched this year) and the next generation of aoteng SSD are planned. They will support the fourth and fifth generation Xeon scalable processor products.
Go and stay with B & amp; During the f exchange, David tuhy, vice president of Intel and general manager of aoten, responded that there were no changes related to aoten to be announced.
The report quoted industry insiders as saying that Intel's current 3D xpoint (second generation) inventory is about enough for two years. Of course, this also means that the third generation of persistent memory and new SSD will be developed using these "old" chips
Whether the third-generation 3D xpoint chips still exist, especially when the old inventory is exhausted, seems to be unknown.
It is worth mentioning that although aoteng was retained when the flash memory business was sold to sk Hynix, Intel CEO Kissinger once told the media that "we never wanted to enter the memory field. As you can see, Intel is quitting all businesses that shouldn't be".
