Xcena and Samsung's Near Memory Compute CXL Device
XCENA and Samsung have collaborated to develop the MX1, a CXL-based memory expansion device designed to handle massive data-parallel workloads. The device features 3072 RISC-V cores and supports up to 2TB of DDR5 memory, aiming to address the high memory demands of modern AI models.
Why it matters
This hardware innovation addresses the critical memory bottleneck in AI infrastructure, offering a power-efficient solution for scaling large-scale machine learning models.
Memory expansion has been attractive for years, and is more relevant than ever because ML models have an insatiable appetite for memory capacity. In response, XCENA has worked with Samsung to create a CXL memory expansion device that can also host SSDs and do compute. The device is called MX1, where MX stands for “Memory Xcelerator”.
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