3D XPoint is a new form of RAM, not SSD
Back on June 11th, seven weeks before the Intel/Micron announcement, Stephen Breezy at Seeking Alpha pulled back the covers on the purpose of the then unnamed 3D XPoint memory. Breezy has been watching Intel patent applications, and saw one for a hybrid DRAM/PCM memory architecture, which looks exactly like the "Apache Pass" memory architecture for Intel's Skylake CPU/Purley platform, the details of which leaked in late May.
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