Intel Announces 'Persistent' Optane DC Memories

Intel's long-awaited Optane DC DIMMs have come to create a mini-revolution in the way servers and data centers handle information. The new DIMMs will see Intel trying to bridge the price and performance gap between DRAM and NAND in the server segment.

Intel Optane DC memories will use DDR4 slots and will offer capacities up to 512GB

During the 'Data-Centric Innovation Day', the company announced the highly anticipated Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMMs. While the new Cascade Lake processors may be the star of the show, Intel's Optane modules may be a key product in propelling the company into a future focused on servers and data centers, for which a new catchphrase has been created: “Moving, Storing and Processing Data”.

Intel's Optane DC DIMMs will use 3D XPoint memory, a type of non-volatile memory, meaning that it does not lose data in the event of power loss. This makes it a kind of hybrid between a NAND module and DRAM, and can be used in multiple new uses.

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The new Optane DIMMs will use a standard DDR4 slot, but offer much larger storage options: 128GB, 256GB, and 512GB.

DIMMs also come with an SSD-type controller, as well as a proprietary memory controller designed by Intel.

With these storage capacities, it would be very possible to see servers with terabytes of RAM, improving waiting times in reading and writing data, and minimizing the risks of information loss in the event of server crashes or restart.

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