Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday it had developed a new DRAM memory technology based on the Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect standard that can upgrade the performances of data centers.
Samsung unveiled the industry’s first Double Data Rate 5 (DDR5) DRAM memory module that supports the advanced CXL interface.
CXL is an open industry-standard interconnect based on the PCI Express (PCIe) 5.0 interface that enables high-speed, low latency communication between the host processor and devices, such as accelerators, memory buffers, and smart input/output devices.
Unlike conventional DDR-based memory, which has limited memory channels, Samsung said its CXL-based DRAM module could expand its memory capacity to the terabyte level while reducing system latency.
It added that such a memory module will be ideal to meet the demands of data-intensive applications, including artificial intelligence and high-performance computing (HPC) workloads in data centers.
Samsung said it applied an enterprise and data center solid-state drive form factor (EDSFF), which is used for large capacity solid-state drives, to expand the memory capacity of its CXL-based DRAM, reports Yonhap news agency.
The world’s largest memory chip producer also incorporated several controller and software solutions like memory mapping, interface converting, and error management. The computing system can recognize the CXL-based memory and utilize it as the main memory.
Samsung has been collaborating with the data center, server, and chipset manufacturers to develop next-generation interface technology since the CXL consortium was formed in 2019.
The South Korean tech giant said its new DRAM module had been successfully verified on next-generation server platforms from Intel Corp., and it plans to commercialize the product in the future.
