Intel's Speed-Boosting Optane Memory Won't Work With Celeron And Pentium PCs

INTEL’S REVOLUTIONARY NEW non-volatile Optane Memory wants to make hard drives as fast as SSDs, but apparently not if you bought a PC on the cheap.

- Ian Paul

The superfast Optane Memory M.2 drives announced in late March not only require a Kaby Lake processor, but a Core one at that, as first spotted by The Tech Report. According to Intel’s ARK database and Optane website, Kaby Lake-based Celeron and Pentium processors aren’t supported.