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3D XPoint Steps into the Light

by aysfrm11 on 1/17/16, 3:58 PM with 3 comments

  • by DanielBMarkham on 1/18/16, 1:07 PM

    A version of XPoint in DIMMs will enable up to 6 TBytes main memory in a two-socket Xeon server at about half the cost of DRAM, Diane Bryant, general manager of Intel’s data center group, said in September, suggesting the servers will ship in 2017.

    I am eager to see a 6TB server in 2017. It would change a heckuva lot of things in the cloud. I'd argue most corporate key infrastructure -- accounting, sales, and such -- would fit into one server.

  • by brudgers on 1/17/16, 4:30 PM