Intel's Optane Business is Hurtling Towards an Unglorified End

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Intel’s Optane business is rushing towards an end.

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They are facing an empty future after losing hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Their business suffered over half a billion dollars, over the course of 2020.

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The loss still continued in 2021.

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They lost $529 million in 2021.

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They lost over a billion dollars over the last two years.

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Optane 900p was PC Game’s SSD of the year for 2017, so it is very sad news for gamers.

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They had excellent endurance ratings.

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They were far ahead in specs to those of NAND SSDs from the same period, but Intel failed to execute properly.

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They tried to position Optane drives as cache solutions for hard drives.

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People shifted from mechanical drives to SSD, cache drivers didn’t appeal.

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H310 didn’t offer Optane support for a cheaper motherboard.

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The 800p was too expensive and too small.

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