It’s been a year since the announcement that Intel would “Wind Down” its Optane 3D XPoint memories. Has anything risen to take its place? Should it? This presentation reviews the alternatives to Optane that are now available or are in development, and evaluates the likelihood that one or more of these could fill the void that is being left behind. We will also briefly review the legacy Optane left behind to see how that legacy is likely to be used to support persistent memories in more diverse applications, including cache memory chiplets.

Big changes lie ahead for the world of data processing in many areas: hardware structure, data management, processing algorithms, and even computing types (analog vs. digital.) How must the technical community prepare for these changes? Join noted analyst Jim Handy and IEEE President Tom Coughlin as they look at future computing systems in which storage will appear in new and interesting places.