back to article Intel unveils gen 2 Optane SCM, bellows: You Barlow Pass, as it unfurls roadmap

Intel has dropped the veil on its gen 2 Optane technology, code-named Barlow Pass, although the details are still light, and revealed it is developing 144-layer QLC (4bits/cell) NAND technology. Chipzilla is also opening a second Optane development line at its Rio Rancho, New Mexico facility, and will be running second …

  1. Duncan Macdonald

    QLC - no thanks

    Until QLC has been in use for years to build a reliability and lifetime database, I will not trust it for anything important. There are too few electrons/bit for me to be happy about using it for storage - it may be OK for caching use (eg on a webserver) where any corrupted data can be recovered from backing storage (HDD).

    1. takyon
      Mushroom

      Re: QLC - no thanks

      I will only use the upcoming OLC (8-bits-per-cell) drives.

  2. Warm Braw

    SCM

    Does that stand for Side Channel Memory?

    Persistent storage + Spectre + Meltdown (or their successors) - what could possibly go wrong?

    1. YARR

      Re: SCM

      Ecosia says Storage Class Memory

  3. Growlzler

    Slight Hint at the Sights and Sounds of the Future?...,

    Hi Chris,

    Sorry, just got around to reading your post. One correction though, Intel is going from "Pass" to "Rapids' in the next generation that occurs concurrently with their third generation XPoint memory - "Sapphire Rapids". Wondering out loud if this has anything to do with their long time partner SAP?

  4. Growlzler

    Slight Hint at the Sights and Sounds of the Future?...,

    Chris,

    Sly naming rights, "Sapphire" along with 3rd generation XPoint". Strange that the two are now "Tick-Tocked" together....,

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