Recent #CXL news in the semiconductor industry

3 months ago

➀ Enfabrica launched the Elastic Memory Fabric System (EMFASYS), integrating its 3.2Tbps ACF-S SuperNIC with CXL memory to create a high-bandwidth RDMA solution for AI clusters;

➁ The system consolidates networking (RDMA) and memory expansion (CXL) into a single chip architecture, eliminating multi-chip complexity and enabling memory pooling over 144 CXL lanes;

➂ EMFASYS addresses AI memory scaling limitations by allowing flexible, large-scale memory access beyond traditional HBM/DRAM, with compatibility for devices like Astera Labs CXL modules.

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4 months ago

➀ Kyocera Pegatron and SMART showcased a prototype demonstrating CXL memory accessed remotely via optical connections at Computex 2025;

➁ The setup utilized SMART's CXL memory module, Kyocera's PCIe-to-optical converter, and MTP/MPO fiber cables, enabling dynamic memory allocation in distributed systems;

➂ The technology highlights future applications in AI clusters and aligns with upcoming PCIe Gen6 advancements, signaling progress toward optical co-packaging solutions.

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4 months ago

➀ Panmnesia launched the Link Solution product line for AI infrastructure, encompassing hardware, silicon IPs, network topology, and software;

➁ The solution reduces communication overhead, enhances system performance, and supports diverse devices/interconnects for flexible AI workload adaptation;

➂ Panmnesia collaborates with industry consortia (CXL, UALink, OCP, PCI-SIG) to advance composable architectures for GPUs, AI accelerators, and memory modules.

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5 months ago

➀ Panmnesia, a Korean CXL specialist, launched a full-stack HPC system using CXL 3.x switches and IP, enabling flexible resource scaling and enhanced parallel computing performance;

➁ The composable hardware architecture allows independent scaling of compute and memory nodes via CXL switches, reducing costs by eliminating redundant resources;

➂ The software stack replaces network-based communication with CXL memory sharing, cutting latency by 44% in a fluid dynamics simulation demonstration.

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11 months ago
➀ Compute Express Link (CXL) technology is expected to move from a niche to mainstream use in 2025; ➁ CXL's support for memory expansion is a significant driver, with various server and memory solutions now available; ➂ CXL 2.0 and future generations of PCIe/CXL will enable more advanced use cases like switching and dynamic memory allocation.
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11 months ago

➀ The CXL 3.2 specification has been officially released by the CXL consortium, focusing on optimizing the monitoring and management of CXL memory devices and enhancing their functionality for operating systems and applications.

➁ The specification also extends security through Trusted Security Protocol (TSP) and ensures full backward compatibility with previous CXL specifications.

➂ The CXL technology is designed for high-performance data center servers, allowing processor modules to share memory and providing low-latency interconnect paths for memory access and communication between host processors and devices that need shared memory resources.

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12 months ago

➀ The rise of artificial intelligence and machine learning applications requires expanded memory capacity and data bandwidth;

➁ The CXL interface, based on PCIe, aims to provide low-latency, high-bandwidth connections for efficient memory sharing between devices such as CPUs, GPUs, and accelerators;

➂ The CXL interface allows Flash to overcome the semantic wall between DRAM and Flash, providing high capacity and low-cost memory.

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12 months ago
➀ Panmnesia, a Korean startup focusing on CXL switch chips and CXL IP, has raised $60 million in Series A funding, valuing the company at $250 million. The funds will be used for the completion of the CXL 3.1 switch chip manufacturing, advancement of CXL IP, and global IT company collaborations. ➁ Founded in 2022, Panmnesia is led by CEO Myoungsoo Jung, a professor at KAIST, and includes Masters and PhD researchers. ➂ The round was led by InterVest and included new investors like Korea Investment Partners and existing investors such as Daekyo Investment.
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about 1 year ago
➀ The transition of AI servers from HBM to CXL technologies; ➁ The importance of high-speed memory bandwidth in AI servers; ➂ The rise of HBM technology to overcome 'memory wall' issues; ➃ Market dominance of HBM suppliers like SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron; ➄ The impact of new interconnect technologies like CXL and MCR/MDIMM on AI server performance; ➅ Micron's product roadmap and Rambus' interconnect solutions; ➆ The significance of SPD EEPROMs in DDR5 memory systems.
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about 1 year ago
➀ Saniffer releases updated version 11.1 of its PCIe5&6.0, CXL, NVMe/NVMoF, SSD, NAND, DDR5, 800GE test technology and tool whitepaper; ➁ PCIe Gen6 NVMe SSD testing begins, with focus on E3.S or E1.S interfaces; ➂ FMS 2024 participation summary with 3505 attendees, including 12 Chinese companies; ➃ PCIe Gen6 interoperability issues identified and scheduled for further testing in October; ➄ AI infrastructure hardware diagnosis, analysis, and testing added to whitepaper, including AI training and inference architectures; ➅ 800G/1.6T optical module development and testing advancements driven by AI and data center demands; ➆ Nvidia starts certifying 1.6T optical modules in June 2024.
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about 1 year ago
➀ CXL consortium showcased advancements at FMS 2024, including new specifications and product demonstrations. ➁ SK hynix introduced a 128 GB CMM-DDR5 CXL memory module and a Heterogeneous Memory Software Development Kit (HMSDK). ➂ Marvell announced a new CXL product line, Structera, featuring compute accelerators and memory expansion controllers.
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