{"id":114971,"date":"2017-01-29T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=114971"},"modified":"2017-01-27T16:05:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T14:05:02","slug":"intel-shipping-first-optane-memory-modules-for-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/114971-intel-shipping-first-optane-memory-modules-for-testing","title":{"rendered":"Intel shipping first Optane memory modules for testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has started shipping its first Optane memory modules for testing, with the aim of releasing products for sale by next year, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/3162177\/storage\/intel-ships-first-optane-memory-modules-for-testing.html\" target=\"_blank\">PCWorld reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Optane is the name under which Intel is branding products based on 3D\u00a0XPoint \u2013 a non-volatile memory technology.<\/p>\n<p>The technology was announced in 2015 and is being developed by Intel and Micron.\u00a0Micron\u2019s 3D XPoint-based brand is QuantX.<\/p>\n<p>Intel has already shipped its first Optane products in the form of SSDs, but has not started selling 3D XPoint-based RAM products.<\/p>\n<p>According to PCWorld, Intel Optane dual inline memory modules are meant to replace the dynamic RAM (DRAM) in servers and PCs, and will fit into existing DDR4 slots.<\/p>\n<p>Intel said Optane memory can be 10-times denser than existing DRAM technology.<\/p>\n<p><em>This article first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/196170-intel-optane-memory-shipped-for-testing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>MyBroadband<\/strong> <\/a>and is republished with permission.<\/em><\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/194040-how-ultra-fast-3d-xpoint-memory-could-revolutionise-pc-hardware.html\">How ultra-fast 3D XPoint memory could revolutionise PC hardware<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has started shipping its first Optane memory modules for testing, with the aim of releasing products for sale by next year, PCWorld reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":79201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23903,1727],"class_list":["post-114971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-3dxpoint","tag-intel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}