Optane Memory

Intel Optane memory, once marketed as a revolutionary bridge between DRAM and storage, has officially transitioned to End of Life (EOL) status. As of 2026, Intel has ceased all new development for the Optane business unit, resulting in a total estimated loss of over $7 billion TomshardwareTechinsights.

Product Status & Market Insights

* Discontinuation: All consumer products, including the Optane Memory M10, 800P, and the hybrid H20 series, are discontinued IntelIntel. The last enterprise persistent memory support is expected to reach its end of interactive support by June 30, 2025 Slashgear.

* Successor Technology: The industry has largely pivoted to CXL (Compute Express Link), an open-standard interconnect that achieves Optane's goal of memory expansion and pooling via the PCIe bus without proprietary hardware locks Techinsights.

* Performance Gap: While Optane remains the "low-latency king," modern NVMe Gen5 SSDs and Microsoft DirectStorage have significantly closed the practical performance gap for most consumer and gaming workloads Tomshardware.

Sourcing & Legacy Inventory

Although discontinued, stock remains available through B2B channels for specialized enterprise or legacy system maintenance. Current market listings include:

* Individual Units: Legacy 118GB P1600X and H10 hybrid modules are still circulating with prices ranging from $89 to $200 per unit depending on capacity AlibabaAlibaba.

* Suppliers: Several active suppliers in Guangdong and Shenzhen continue to provide OEM/ODM support for M.2 NVMe storage and may hold remaining Intel Optane stock AlibabaAlibaba.

Detailed specifications and supplier lists for the remaining Optane inventory are available in the deliverables below.