[Weryj]

Wasn’t quite right before, but Optane was sold off, so it’s sad the buyer just sat on the IP.

Also the selling point was latency, but I suspect we’ll see bandwidth being the important metric with AI using deep pipelines to stream in the weights in a latency insensitive manner.

[PunchyHamster]

Optane latency was low enough that it could be drop-in RAM replacement for models. Bandwidth is just "stack more of them"

[dlcarrier]

Intel and Micron sold off the fab making Optane, but I haven't heard anything about them selling off the design rights, not there's much they can do without the fab that could make them.