When does a PC have “24GB of memory?” When its Intel Optane Memory, which assists in storage, is being counted on top of the 4GB, 8GB, or 16GB of RAM we’re used to seeing on mainstream PCs.

Intel likes to talk about its Optane products creating a new memory paradigm. The last time HEXUS wrote about Optane was concerning the sampling of Intel's Optane DC persistent memory with customers, ...

Intel Optane memory might sound like a new standard of RAM, but it has more in common with modern storage solutions like solid state drives (SSDs). Yet it’s designed to supplant SSDs in some ways — ...

Luke Lancaster is an Associate Editor with CNET, based out of Australia. He spends his time with games (both board and video) and comics (both reading and writing). Intel Optane memory is making a lot ...

Multiple PC OEMs are selling laptops outfitted with Intel Optane cache drives -- but they're improperly combining that information in ways that makes it seem as if the Optane cache drive represents ...

Why it matters: At least two PC manufacturers are marketing systems by lumping Optane cache memory in with the DRAM to make it appear that the PC has more RAM than it does. Furthermore, Intel seems to ...

We tested Intel Optane Memory in a Core i7-7500-based system (Kaby Lake) with an Asus B250 motherboard, 16GB of Kingston RAM, and a Western Digital Black 1TB, 7200RPM hard drive. Windows 10 Pro x64 ...

Budget laptops and plastic parts go together like peanut butter and jelly, but Asus’ new VivoBook lineup looks to add some premium finish to its new machines. The first of two new VivoBooks unleashed ...

After first being unveiled back in March, Intel has today made available its first consumer-grade 3D Xpoint memory solution Intel Optane Memory. Which has been designed to provide extra performance to ...