This is what happens when the marketing department gives the same name to two things which may be broadly in a general product category, but are technically very different. Have seen it with many categories of hardware.
That part isn't terrible, even though it is really unwieldy. The big problem is using "Optane Memory" as the branding for the kind that isn't a memory module.
The natural things to call them are "Optane drives" and "Optane memory". Don't criss-cross that!
Intel has basically been doing that for quite a while with the whole "Core i7", "Core i5", etc naming strategy. Where an i7 targeted at laptops might be substantially the same as an i3 targeted at desktops.
absolutely, for any meaningful comparison one has to track down what the code name for the CPU core is on various semiconductor enthusiast websites, and do ones' own research. There's like 10 different generations of core i3/i5/i7 now. I think the old i7 sitting behind me is an Ivy Bridge.
There's Optane memory, which is the one the link is referring to, it needs Intel CPUs
Then there's Optane SSDs, which works with AMD fine
Source: I'm using them on EPYC servers
Optane memory is not a traditional SSD, it's more of a disk cache, matched to the Intel CPU. While the rest of the Optane family are standard SSDs