Intel's Optane hardware releases haven't so far inspired the kind of enthusiasm that the technology showcases did previously. But what if you could get an Optane Memory drive for free with your next ...

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One of the more interesting recent developments in PC components is Intel’s Optane storage system, which is built using advanced 3D XPoint memory technology that Intel co-developed with memory maker ...

MSI has just unleashed 3 new motherboard bundles that include Intel's new Optane Memory pre-installed into the M.2 slot on the board, with the new bundles dubbed 'Opt Boost' variants of MSI's boards.

Optane Memory uses a "least recently used" (LRU) approach to determine what gets stored in the fast cache. All initial data reads come from the slower HDD storage, and the data gets copied over to the ...

When does a PC have “24GB of memory?” When its Intel Optane Memory, which assists in storage, is being counted on top of the 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of RAM we’re used to seeing on mainstream PCs.

Intel’s Optane memory technology is super-speedy… and super expensive. So the first few consumer-oriented Optane solutions the company has offered were 16GB to 64GB SSDs designed to be paired with a ...

Intel is known for cranking up PC speeds to new highs, and it’s doing the same for storage with the super fast Optane. Optane, which Intel claims will replace today’s SSDs and DRAM, is exciting for ...

Intel's Next Unit of Computing (NUC) desktop PCs are now a well-known option for anyone wanting a tiny PC they can sit on the back of a monitor. Typically, they come in barebones form, requiring the ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...