back to article Explicit Intel 'Beach' pics 'leaked': All eyeballs on Optane SSD roadmap

Intel looks to be producing four Optane product families, with Mansion Beach, Brighton Beach, Stony Beach and Carson Beach code names seen on what looks like a leaked Intel slide. The Intel Optane SSD roadmap slide from BenchLife Info of Taiwan shows us various Intel SSD product families during 2016 and the first 2017 quarter …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Intel code names drive me nuts. They should give them proper structured consuner-facing names.

    I can't remember if I'm supposed to be buying silver beach, golden mount, or brass lake this year.

    1. msknight

      I think that, due to global cooling... it's now brass monkeys.

    2. Flocke Kroes Silver badge

      Intel product names ...

      Are intended to cause confusion. You are supposed to read an excellent review with impressive benchmarks, then when you try to buy something it must be almost impossible to match a product with a review. Enough people buy expensive when they wanted fast to make it worth the effort. It almost made sense a decade ago, but now that cheapest is fast enough I do not see the point.

      1. Anonymous Coward
        Anonymous Coward

        The cheapest IS fast enough

        The gain going from hard drives to SSDs was massive. The gain going from SSDs to better SSDs (PCIe, NVDIMMs, XPoint, etc.) is much smaller and not worth bothering with for most people.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Stony Beach?

    Oh, please tell me we're going to get a Stoneybridge. They have facilities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolutely_(sketch_show)

  3. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
    Unhappy

    Any excuse

    The words "Beach" and "pics" in the title had me anticipating a picture of like the Asus eee girl at the beach. Only to shocked into seeing some bloke.

    So, in the same vein as Private Eye letters page correspondents keep mentioning the photo of Andrew Neil in a string vest embracing a young woman, I feel duty bound to remind fellow commentards of the following much more pleasant vista than the photo accompanying this article.

    http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/02/eee_girl_saga_continues/

    http://regmedia.co.uk/2008/05/21/eee_girl_1.jpg

  4. Novex

    Typical...

    ...that there's no news on the NVDIMM side of things, which was what I'd hoped to read something about in this article. Oh well, just keep waiting, just keep waiting...

  5. John 104

    Blah blah blah. Who cares? When they come out I'll be interested. In the mean time, We are living in a Skylake and Samsung world. Which is plenty fast enough as it is.

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