Intel Optane and 3D Xpoint Updates from IDF

In the last discussions on HN [1] the opinion seemed to be 'show us products first'. Now the first products are coming out next year. How will this change computing as we know it? Been trying to understand what this will do, but the step in speed seems bigger than anything I've encountered in my life. Like going from spinning tape to floppy, but the speed difference is even bigger.

As far as I understand, this will change the layout of PC's in a pretty far reaching way in the years to come. First the memory will fill products that can saturate PCIe x4 and NVMe easily. But what will future products look like? I guess the whole divide GPU - CPU and cache - RAM - storage can become obsolete?

I envision that this revolution can help (finally) the push towards manycore programming, since the buffers can more easily be filled. But I'm very far out of my area of expertise, so would love the input.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962913