Kioxia and Western Digital want to take on Intel Optane with XL-FLASH

guest · Mar 6, 2020

Kioxia and Western Digital want to take on Intel Optane with XL-FLASH
The $3B persistent memory market is heating up
March 6, 2020
https://www.techspot.com/news/84288-kioxia-western-digital-want-take-intel-optane-xl.html

Something to look forward to: There is a new player in the persistent memory market, courtesy of Kioxia (formerly Toshiba) and Western Digital. And while enterprise customers will be the first to see the benefits, it might push Intel and Samsung to improve their own solutions, which will ultimately end up in consumer-grade hardware we can all use in our own PCs.

Intel's Optane tech is about to get the competition it needs to evolve quicker, and it comes in the form of XL-FLASH. So far only Samsung's Z-NAND hasn't been able to shake things up, but Kioxia and Western Digital set out to create an alternative that can serve the growing storage needs of enterprise customers and data centers.

In essence, XL-FLASH is similar to Optane in that it sits between NAND and RAM in the memory hierarchy chart, combining the benefits of both technologies into something that strikes a balance between cost and performance [...]
The two companies used BiCS FLASH 3D flash memory as a starting point for the new tech, which means they were able to achieve relatively lower cost when compared to Optane and DRAM.
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