Ssd optane client with 3d xpoint will debut with intel kaby lake

The first SSD devices based on Intel's revolutionary 3D XPoint memory technology will arrive alongside the company's new Kaby Lake processors later this year 2016.

Optane Client and 3D XPoint to debut with Intel kaby Lake

According to a leaked slide by the company, Intel is gearing up for the debut of its 3D XPoint memory technology alongside Kaby Lake, the most advanced and efficient processors will arrive alongside the new memory standard that promises to diaper current SSDs. based on NAND Flash.

Optane “Mansion Beach” SSDs with 3D XPoint technology will target the most enthusiastic of workstations with a PCIe gen 3.0 x4 interface and NVMe protocol support for unprecedented performance. A step below will be the "Brighton Beach " that conform to a PCIe gen 3.0 x2 interface to offer a more economical but equally excellent performance solution. Finally we have the "Stony Beach" that will correspond to the input range of this new technology with the same PCIe gen 3.0 x2 interface and in M.2 format.

Intel's new Optane SSDs will build on the new 3D Xpoint memory and arrive in 2016 with up to 5x improvements in performance from current NAND memory-based SSDs. These new SSDs will arrive in M.2 / NGFF, SATA-Express and PCI-Express formats taking advantage of the NVMe protocol. Micron Technology works together with Intel on the new 3D Xpoint memory so we should also see new units with this memory from Micron / Crucial.

Source: techpowerup