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> and (more importantly) you can run them on AMD platforms (ie: SP3) too

Wait, you can? I thought Optane required specific motherboards for the DIMM versions? From what I understand, the M.2/nvme devices just show up as a drive in Linux right?

But I thought the actual DDR4/DIMMS only work in certain Xeon boards.

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I suppose they're relating to Optane SSD[0], not Optane memory.

[0] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/memory-stor...

Ah, the DDR4/DIMM Optane models are not yet publicly available (which should significantly bring us closer to parity with memory latency), and I was referring to the Optane NVMe drives being compatible with AMD systems.

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