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NVMe is (now) a more general purpose "speak to flash like things". This Optane memory stuff is made of "flash", but unlike our Local SSD offering (or AWS's i3) it's at a latency and throughput closer to DRAM.

Despite it being marketing material, I find the pyramid diagram [1] helpful. This blog post is about "Optane Persistent Memory".

[1] https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/...

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What is its latency compared to RAM, 10X ? Most latency comparisons mentioned in other comments compare RAM to pcie based optane memory, not the DRAM optane memory.

Edit: Article[1] here says the latency was 40µs with 13M IOPS, if you consider RAM latency to be 100ns[2], then it looks like 40X

[1] - https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/filecab/2018/10/30/windo... [2] - https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832

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