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Realizing the Future: 3D XPoint™August 2015
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The Challenge: Nonvolatile Memory Latency
As CPU technology scales, memory IO creates significant performance bottlenecks Huge latency gap in memory hierarchy between volatile and non-volatile technologies Latency gap widens with the introduction of DDR4
100ns
10ns
10 µs
100 µs
10ms
1ns
HDD
SAS SSD
PCIe SSD
DRAM
CPU Cache
Non-Volatile Memory Volatile Memory
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Introducing 3D XPoint™
3D XPoint
1000XFASTERTHAN NAND
1000XENDURANCEOF NAND
10XDENSERTHAN CONVENTIONAL MEMORY
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3D XPoint™ Bridges the Memory / Storage GapValue Proposition Applications
Latency
ps
Cost
per
Bit
CPU Cache
PCIe SSD SAS
SSD SATA SSD HDD
ns µs ms s
Application Target
DRAMLow-latency NVM for Memory or Ultra-fast
Storage Tier
NV Write-Cache for RAID Meta-Data Storage Whole System Persistence / Back-up Storage Tiering / Server Cache Application Data Logging Data Deduplication In-memory Database
Vertical MarketsOil & Gas Exploration Medical ResearchBig Data Analytics Financial Transactions
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3D XPoint™ Changes the Game
3D XPoint will take in-memory computing to the next level with performance and capacities unreachable with today’s offerings.
In Memory
Taking analytics and transactional
processing to the next level
integrating memory and storage together for
performance never seen before
Mobile
Unleashing and unifying a new wave of mobile
platform architectures with
memory and storage in a single
memory device
Storage
Blazingly fast low-latency storage for
the most demanding applications
requiring high speed real time
computing
Embedded
High speed and endurance that can
drive the most demanding embedded
applications
Client
Revolutionary memory for your
ultimate PC experience
unifying memory and storage for
your next-gen PC
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This new class of non-volatile memory is a revolutionary technology that allows for
quick access to enormous data sets and enables entirely new applications.
- Mark Adams, Micron
For decades, the industry has searched for ways to reduce the time between the
processor and data. This new class of non-volatile memory achieves this goal and brings game-changing performance to memory and
storage solutions.
- Rob Crooke, Intel
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A Game Changer
“The decade-long partnership between Intel and Micron to build better NAND (or Flash) memory used in solid-state drives has yielded an entirely new form of computer memory. This is a big deal. It’s as if a 10-year effort by Ford
and GM to build a better car also produced a Segway.”
“In the semiconductor industry there are often break-through, game-changing technologies that are unveiled and then
there are the sort of absolute thermonuclear detonations like
Intel and Micron just jointly announced… Yep, mind blown.”
- Dave Altavilla, Forbes - Stacey Higginbotham, Fortune
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CPU
The Past: Nonvolatile Memories in Server Architectures
PCH
DRAMDDR
SATA
Lower R/W
Latency
Higher Bandwidth
Higher Endurance
Lower cost
per bit Disk
In the old days of not long ago we had two primary types of memories in computers: DRAM and Hard Disk Drive (HDD)
DRAM was fast and volatile and HDDs were slower, but nonvolatile
Data moves from the HDD to DRAM where it is the fed to the processor
The processor writes the result in DRAM and then it is stored back to disk to remain for future use
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The Present: Nonvolatile Memories in Server Architectures
CPU
PCH SATASSD
NAND Flash
NVMeSSD
NAND Flash
DRAM
NVDIMMNAND FlashDRAM
DDRDDR
PCIe
SATA
SATA
Lower R/W
Latency
Higher Bandwidth
Higher Endurance
Lower cost
per bit Disk
System performance increased as the speed of both the interface and the memory accesses improved
NAND Flash considerably improved the nonvolatile response time
SATA and PCIe made further optimization to the storage interface
NVDIMM provides battery- or super capacitor-backed DRAM, operating at DRAM-like speeds and retains data when power is removed
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The Future: Nonvolatile Memories in Server Architectures
CPU
PCH SATASSD
NAND Flash
NVMeSSD
NAND Flash
DRAM
NVDIMMNAND FlashDRAM
3D XPoint™
DDRDDR
DDR/PCIe
PCIe
SATA
SATA
Lower R/W
Latency
Higher Bandwidth
Higher Endurance
Lower cost
per bit Disk
3D XPoint technology provides the benefit in the middle
It is considerably faster than NAND Flash
Performance can be realized on PCIe or DDR buses
Lower cost per bit than DRAM while being considerably more dense