In 2020, it was announced that the NAND Flash business would be transferred toGive to South Korea's SK Hynix After SK Hynix, although Intel stated that it would retain the Optane brand, when announcing its second-quarter financial report for fiscal year 2022, Intel finally confirmed that it would gradually shut down the Optane brand business in the future and would no longer develop new products.
Even though Intel previously stated that it would continue to develop Optane-branded products when it terminated its collaboration with Micron to develop and produce 3D Xpoint storage products, it has clearly decided not to continue developing the Optane-branded business after transferring its NAND Flash business to South Korea's SK Hynix, allowing Intel to focus its future business more on processor products.
According to Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger, due to the market shiftCXL ArchitectureWith the development of Optane, the CPU will be able to directly use memory as an accelerated computing component with GPU and FPGA under the PCIe 5.0 specification, which can replace the original Optane product application model. Therefore, there will be no need to continue investing in Optane product development in the future.
The closure of the Optane brand business will increase Intel's cost expenditure by approximately US$5.59 million, including the clearance of existing Optane inventory products and the inability of related businesses to continue to generate liquidated damages.
According to Intel, the closure of the Optane brand business will be part of its IDM 2.0 development strategy. Related product research and development and production will be terminated in the future, and products that have already appeared in the development plan blueprint will also be canceled.
