Did it ever have real input costs which justified its pricing or was it totally a synthetic price to cover an imagined value above base, and some IPR?
I may be wrong, but I tend to think the fab cost has very little to do with the complexity, but not nothing, and the outcome cost is very unrelated to price at a viable yield.
If optane failed, it was probably because Intel didn't like the economics of pricing it to succeed.
I still think it has a lot of potential, and is the logical next storage system, because of its performance advantages over NAND flash. Because input costs can come down.
"here's one I prepared earlier" would be cute. I think other people's threads pointing out to scale globally it has to be something anyone can do, and right now Intel appear to have set the RAND conditions or whatever IPR they lock into this higher than other people want to pay.
I may be wrong, but I tend to think the fab cost has very little to do with the complexity, but not nothing, and the outcome cost is very unrelated to price at a viable yield.
If optane failed, it was probably because Intel didn't like the economics of pricing it to succeed.