According to Blocks & Files, the reason why Intel has shrunk the Optane business for many years may be fundamentally due to the huge financial consumption. In 2020, intel's final year of listing Optane's business in its earnings report, its loss reached $576 million. Intel doesn't often disclose data from Optane's business, but in 2020, Intel transferred this part of the business to the Non-Volatile Storage and Solutions Division (NSG) and the Data Center Solutions Division (DSG), allowing some information and data to be filled.
Although there is no specific financial report data for 2021, based on information from some of Intel's filings with the SEC, the Optane business may lose $529 million in 2021. Even if the losses are not so serious, the numbers will certainly not look good. Despite the heavy losses in Optane's business at this stage, Intel still attaches great importance to Optane technology as part of the expansion of the Xeon processor platform.
As an innovative high-density non-volatile memory technology, Optane technology has a lot of merit, but it does not really realize its potential in the market. Last year, Micron, Intel's technology partner, announced the suspension of further development of all 3D XPoint technology-based products and sold the 3D XPoint Flash Chip Factory in Lehi, Utah, to Texas Instruments for $1.5 billion.
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