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Intel is planning on implementing 3DXPoint differently from Micron who will likely have variants of it for PCIe 4.0 (due in 2017). However when PCIe 5.0 comes around it will likely have a completely different architecture from 4.0 (not going to be backwards compatible) and its likely we will see...

For now they are for diffreent use cases, but as the technology matures its likely that both will be used for both gpu & cpu.

In short, 3D XPoint is essentially a DIMM slot SSD that performs at DDR4 speed. So fast that there is no need for actual RAM in a system and it doesn't wear out like flash ram. some features: same read write speeds non-volatile (can store data when powered off) cheaper than DRAM, more...