{
  "slug": "optane",
  "term": "Intel Optane",
  "aliases": [
    "Optane SSD",
    "Optane memory"
  ],
  "definition": "Intel's brand for storage products built on 3D XPoint non-volatile memory before the business was wound down.",
  "note": "Intel Optane was Intel’s product brand for devices built on 3D XPoint media: NVMe SSDs, small client caching modules, and datacenter persistent memory (DCPMM) DIMMs. It sat in the storage-class memory gap—lower latency and different endurance economics than NAND, but not DRAM. Micron exited 3D XPoint in 2021; Intel announced in 2022 that it would wind down Optane and stop future product development while supporting existing warranties. Treat Optane as a legacy technology family for archival understanding and remaining installed base—not an active procurement roadmap. Media details live under the 3D XPoint term; Optane is the Intel-branded productization.",
  "status": "eol",
  "advantages": [],
  "limitations": [],
  "related": [
    "3d-xpoint",
    "enterprise-ssd",
    "pcie-storage"
  ],
  "supersedes": [],
  "supersededBy": [],
  "firstSeen": {
    "date": "2017",
    "citationIds": [
      "c1"
    ]
  },
  "lastSeen": {
    "date": "2022",
    "citationIds": [
      "c2"
    ]
  },
  "citations": [
    {
      "id": "c1",
      "title": "Intel Optane SSD 900p series brief",
      "url": "https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/memory-storage/optane-memory-series/intel-optane-ssd-900p-series-brief.html",
      "accessed": "2026-03-26"
    },
    {
      "id": "c2",
      "title": "Intel winding down Optane memory business",
      "url": "https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/intel-winding-down-optane-memory-business.html",
      "accessed": "2026-03-26"
    },
    {
      "id": "n3",
      "title": "Intel — Optane business update (warranty and support implications)",
      "url": "https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000091826/memory-and-storage.html",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07"
    },
    {
      "id": "n4",
      "title": "Intel — Customer support options for discontinued Optane SSDs",
      "url": "https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000024320/technologies/memory-and-storage.html",
      "accessed": "2026-10-07"
    }
  ]
}