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CXL Borgs IBM’s OpenCAPI, Weaves Memory Fabrics With 3.0 Spec
System architects are often impatient about the future, especially when they can see something good coming down the pike. …
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KAIST Shows Off DirectCXL Disaggregated Memory Prototype
The hyperscalers and cloud builders are not the only ones having fun with the CXL protocol and its ability to create tiered, disaggregated, and composable main memory for systems. …
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Microsoft Azure Blazes The Disaggregated Memory Trail With zNUMA
Dynamic allocation of resources inside of a system, within a cluster, and across clusters is a bin-packing nightmare for hyperscalers and cloud builders. …
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The Future Of System Memory Is Mostly CXL
What is the most expensive component that hyperscalers and cloud builders put into their X86 servers? …
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The Path Is Set For PCI-Express 7.0 In 2025
The ink is barely dry on the PCI-Express 6.0 specification, which was released after years of development in January 2022, we hardly have PCI-Express 5.0 peripherals in the market, and the PCI-SIG organization that controls the PCI-Express standard for peripheral interconnects already has us all coveting the bandwidth that will come later in the decade with PCI-Express 7.0 interconnects. …
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Meta Platforms Hacks CXL Memory Tier Into Linux
We have been excited about the possibilities of adding tiers of memory to systems, particularly persistent memories that are less expensive than DRAM but offer similar-enough performance and functionality to be useful. …
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Marvell Throws Hat Into Intel’s Universal Chiplet Interconnect Ring
Marvell Technology is the latest chipmaker to join the emerging Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express (UCI-Express) consortium, which is working toward an open interconnect standard for chiplet architectures. …
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Finally, A Coherent Interconnect Strategy: CXL Absorbs Gen-Z
It is refreshing to find instances in the IT sector where competing groups with their own agendas work together for the common good and the improvement of systems everywhere. …
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The Tipping Point For PCI-Express Fabrics
In the longest of runs, say within the next five to ten years, in the large datacenters of the world, the server chassis as we know it will no longer exist. …
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The CXL Roadmap Opens Up The Memory Hierarchy
The system world would have been a simpler place if InfiniBand had fulfilled its original promise as a universal fabric interconnect for linking all manner of devices together within a system and across systems. …