Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are accelerating the development of next-generation semiconductor technology in response to the needs of applications such as ChatGPT in the era of artificial intelligence (AI).
According to previous reports, Samsung Electronics has developed the industry’s first 128GB CXL D-RAM that supports Compute Express Link (CXL) 2.0. In contrast, SK Hynix also developed the first CXL memory sample last August, and in October of the same year, it unveiled its computational memory solution platform capable of integrating machine learning and computing functions into it.
CXL is a next-generation interface for more efficient use of accelerators, D-RAM, and storage devices connected to central processing units or other CPUs, and is widely used in high-performance server systems. It is characterized by integrating multiple interfaces to realize direct communication and shared memory between devices.
This new product allows the server platform to combine multiple CXL memories into a memory pool, and multiple hosts can share the memory of each memory pool as needed, so that the CXL memory can be fully utilized, avoiding idle areas, and thus Achieving more efficient memory utilization.
Despite the explosive growth of data in the metaverse, artificial intelligence (AI) and big data services in recent years, the existing DDR interface has limitations on the amount of DRAM that can be installed in a system, so there is a continued demand for next-generation CXL DRAM, etc. A new generation of memory solutions can make up for this.
