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points by bobmcnamara 3 days ago | 0 comments

Intel pirated Optane and bailed when they got caught, seemed unrelated to AI, just Intel being Intel.

What? They co-developed Optane with Micron and Micron gave up on it before Intel did.

Intel and micron licensed the 3D XPoint nonvolatile memory cell from Ovshinsky/Ovonyx, then bled them dry by delaying royalties, eventually stopping payment altogether until they went under.

Eventually someone in the know bought the husk of Ovonyx and sued Intel.

[–] LtdJorge 3 days ago

Intel sold it to Micron, tho

[–] trynumber9 3 days ago

Micron bought IM Flash after development was ceased. But they stopped selling Xpoint products before Intel stopped selling Optane.

[–] bobmcnamara 2 days ago

Inten never bought it from Ovonyx, so how could they sell it?