Intel's Optane (3D XPoint memory technology) appears to be further along the development cycle than what we saw from Micron last week. Intel is already working with an ASIC controller for memory management and reaffirmed to us that a client product will ship through retail channels before the end of the year.
The company displayed Optane working on the show floor at two separate workstations. The first cycled through synthetic benchmarks to show scaling performance at increasing queue depths. The second focused on real-world applications testing, with software rendering over a billion particles. (Many Bothans died to get us this information picture.)
In the image above, we got our first look at Optane in what appears to be a retail-ready, half-height add-in card form factor next to a DC P3700 enterprise SSD. The only thing missing on the black Optane product is a retail sticker and skull moniker that dates back to Intel's first enterprise-to-client product, Skulltrail.
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