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  • flgt - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Wow, $3999 for 128 GB? And I was complaining about the 16GB I just bought. I don’t work with servers so I didn’t know how expensive big modules got. Does this leave an opening for Optane for big databases or is the performance hit too great?
  • deil - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Optane is 10 times slower than ram in best case scenario. Ram will always be needed, Optane can work same as PAGEFILE, when server will need much more than usual.
  • CheapSushi - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Keep in mind Optane Apache Pass DIMM is a bit closer than PCIe based Optane. It's still not RAM of course. But it's a viable alternative as supplementary. Apache Pass DIMMs are actually connected to a DIMM; they're "chaperoned". They work a bit differently too. So instead of buying 4TB of $$$$ RAM, you could do 1TB of RAM with 1TB of Apache Pass Optane DIMM and get a bit more "good enough / close enough" for those type of workloads if the company is a bit more budget strained.

    They're the extra green rectangle on the RAM section: https://imgur.com/a/F6z92

    http://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-xd-xpoint-d...
  • ಬುಲ್ವಿಂಕಲ್ ಜೆ ಮೂಸ್ - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Prices remain what the market will bear as the size and speed go up

    You wouldn't want to know what 16 "MB" of Ram cost when the 486 arrived

    128GB in 1980 prices would be over $800 Million Dollars today

    I don't think the cost per stick has really changed that much, in fact, it seems to be less per stick today at the maximum memory sizes
  • ಬುಲ್ವಿಂಕಲ್ ಜೆ ಮೂಸ್ - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    128GB in 1980 / over $800 Million
    128GB in 1990 / over $13 Million
    128GB in 2000 / over $140 Thousand

    Today / $4000
  • surt - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    2024: Are you kidding? Who would buy a phone with only 128GB ram?
  • digiguy - Friday, March 23, 2018 - link

    it will be more like 2124 for phones with Terabytes of Ram...
  • surt - Friday, March 23, 2018 - link

    Nah:
    2019: $2500
    2020: $1500
    2021:$1000
    2022:$600
    2023:$400
    2024:$250
    2025:$150
    2026:$100
    2027:cheap enough to be a BOM component.
  • iwod - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Well we still need those price to come down a lot. In the era of In Memory Computing, we need cheap Memory. $1000 for 128GB, what does it take to get there?
  • nevcairiel - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Well this is server-grade memory, so prices are expected to be higher. It's still worth it for serious Datacenter use most of the time.
  • yuhong - Thursday, March 22, 2018 - link

    Do anyone know how these will work with current Purley Xeons?

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