Editorial Wishful Thinking, Disingenious Marketing: Intel's Optane Being Marketed as DRAM Memory

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I said in the article that HP's wrongdoings, as initially reported by Extremetech, may well be written off. The example they give likely can't be pinned to HP, who go the extra mile to separate RAM from Optane in their products, as the screenshot suggests.

What you are talking about is indeed an announced product that will, indeed, help blur the line between DRAM and Optane. However, that product is not yet for sale; it's simply announced. Intel announced its 10 nm tech eons ago in roadmaps and look where we're at. The argument I make is that in the case of Optane DIMMs + System RAM, the INtel message of adding optane as "Memory that's very much like RAM" would be at least defensible. As it stands, with these Optane cache drives, it's a premature change in stance, that has the favorable implications of allowing for these kind of plays. That's my issue.

So your issue is a product that's pretty much under heavy development, isn't perfectly settled into a category already?
Because that's what XPoint is at the moment: a technology that seems to offer a lot of potential, but you need to figure out how to build it first.

Meh... everyone is freaking out like the sky is failing. should the memory be listed as DDR4, well duh, of course not, if its not, but you all are really over the top with hate. oh my, the milk has spilled.

Well, selling what's essentially a drive cache as RAM is beyond dishonest (and probably subject to lawsuits). I believe nobody is disputing that.
At the same time, if I had a penny for each time I heard someone referring to the HDD as "memory"...

 

[Dave65]

Wow this is pretty low for Intel and OEM. Basically a scam.

About what id expect from Intel.

 

[Patriot]

What is the problem with HP anyway? I cannot see anything on that screenshot that I would want to complain about.

It's extremetech's bad reporting being cited without looking at the original... Extremetech googled 24G laptops and found a Sams ad for an HP laptop. Sam's club reworded HP's specs to match Dells, but it doesn't show the same way on HP's own website.

 

[Raevenlord]

It's extremetech's bad reporting being cited without looking at the original... Extremetech googled 24G laptops and found a Sams ad for an HP laptop. Sam's club reworded HP's specs to match Dells, but it doesn't show the same way on HP's own website.

Touched upon in our own piece as having nothing to do with HP, and not being a mistake attributable to them.