{"id":196170,"date":"2017-01-27T09:37:30","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=196170"},"modified":"2017-01-27T09:39:25","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T07:39:25","slug":"intel-optane-memory-shipped-for-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/196170-intel-optane-memory-shipped-for-testing.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel Optane memory shipped for testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has started shipping its first Optane memory modules for testing, with the aim of releasing products for sale by next year, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3162177\/storage\/intel-ships-first-optane-memory-modules-for-testing.html\" target=\"_blank\">PCWorld reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Optane is the name under which Intel is branding products based on 3D\u00a0XPoint &#8211; a non-volatile memory technology.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was announced in 2015 and is being developed by Intel and Micron.\u00a0Micron\u2019s 3D XPoint-based brand is QuantX.<\/p>\n<p>Intel has already shipped its first Optane products in the form of SSDs, but has not started selling 3D XPoint-based RAM products.<\/p>\n<p>According to PCWorld, Intel Optane dual inline memory modules are meant to replace the dynamic RAM (DRAM) in servers and PCs, and will fit into existing DDR4 slots.<\/p>\n<p>Intel said Optane memory can be 10-times denser than existing DRAM technology.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/194040-how-ultra-fast-3d-xpoint-memory-could-revolutionise-pc-hardware.html\">How ultra-fast 3D XPoint memory could revolutionise PC hardware<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has started shipping its first Optane memory modules for testing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":196172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[40572,40898,40900,40896,131,7297,40570,40894],"class_list":["post-196170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-3d-xpoint","tag-double-data-rate-ddr","tag-dual-in-line-memory-module-dimm","tag-dynamic-random-access-memory-dram","tag-intel","tag-micron","tag-optane","tag-quantx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196186,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196170\/revisions\/196186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}