Eric Lucas on 30 Apr 2017 19:11:23 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Optane Memory


Seems to me it's a faster and denser memory technology for SSDs.

This marketing video is, however, all I know about it:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/architecture-and-technology/intel-optane-technology.html

It's very clever to create a trade name that is 1 letter off from the
name of a hydrocarbon
almost everyone has heard of.  Similar, I suppose, to naming your
mathematics software "Mathane".

Eric

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 6:05 PM, Casey Bralla <MailList@nerdworld.org> wrote:
> Am I missing something, or is "optane" simply another word meaning "disk
> cache"?
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