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by wtallis 813 days ago
> But for AI models, Optane may have an advantage: it's bit-addressable.

That's an advantage over NAND but not over DRAM. Fundamentally, DRAM is also bit-addressable, but everybody uses DRAM parts with memory cells organized into a hierarchy of groupings for reasons that mostly apply to 3D XPoint memory.