In addition to CPU, Intel also has its own SSD product line. In 2015, Intel launched 3D XPoint technology and invested 5.5 billion dollars in Dalian to build a 3D NAND factory. Later, Intel released new storage technology jointly developed with Micron, It claims that the speed and durability are 1000 times of the current NAND, while the storage density has increased by 10 times, and the speed has reached the memory level.

For Intel, its brand name is Optane, and for Micron, its brand name is QuantX. This Technical performance support will not be restricted by platform chips, and it is rumored that even AMD processor/chipset machines can also be supported. But this new technology is still very expensive and has not been applied in a large scale until now.

At the end of December 2016, Lenovo launched nine new products in a row ahead of CES 2017, including the option of Optane hard disk. Although it is still affected by the price, the machine can only be configured with 16GB Optane SSD at most. The latter will be used in the form of a cache disk, using the M.2 interface and taking the PCIe 3.0 channel.

Compared with the speed of ordinary SSD and Optane, this unit is really moved

These ThinkPads were launched in January and February 2017, but the bad news is that the foreign media Anandtech received the news that the Optane option will not be launched synchronously and will be delayed for a period of time. Although it sounds like a ticket skipping, many people will be curious about what kind of experience it would be if the capacity of the Optane SSD was a little larger and the entire system was running on a memory level speed storage device.

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