On: The Intel Optane SSD 900P 280G Review

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I'm hoping that changes as they improve yields / gain more commercial adoption.

This is "Intel" we're talking about. I'm no expert on the industry, but from what I recall Intel is the king of fabs.

[wmf → katastic]

Intel is also king of margins. Considering that NAND is 4x the density of XPoint I wouldn't expect it to get much cheaper.

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Well, they've also chased quite a fee geese that haven't provided any golden eggs yet. Like Xeon Phi, which was supposed to be the GPGPU killer for half a decade now. But it's never really been more than temporarily on par with NVidia's offerings.

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"Intel's greatest invention... was AMD."

;D