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navigationallyaided t1_j0aczhs wrote

Reply to comment by SargeInCharge in Japan to Manufacture 2nm Chips With a Little Help From IBM by Avieshek

And that coincided with the tail end of IMFT - the Intel-Micron NAND joint venture. Intel saw Optane as the new hotness, high-bandwidth X-point NAND that was supposed to be paired with a mechanical SSD; the Windows version of Apple’s Fusion Drive.

It was a flop, much like Intel’s gamble on Rambus RDRAM 20 years ago - and Samsung took the NAND world by storm with their 3D V-NAND.

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