Back on July 28, 2015 Micron Technology and Intel held a hurriedly scheduled press conference to announce 3D XPoint memory with amazing slides like this one: Why this was such a rush given that parts still haven't been seen in the wild is still a mystery. At the time, many of us observed that Micron's CEO Mark Durcan looked extremely uncomfortable on stage with the voluble cheery head of 3D XPoint from Intel , Rob Crooke: That's Durcan on the right.