Samsung Electronics announced today the successful construction of the industry’s first Compute Express Link (CXL) infrastructure certified by Red Hat, a leading provider of open-source solutions.
The new infrastructure at Samsung’s Memory Research Center in South Korea will allow the South Korean giant to directly verify CXL-related products, including hardware and software components.
Products verified by Samsung through the new infrastructure can be immediately submitted for registration with Red Hat, streamlining product development cycles for both Samsung and its customers.
Samsung has already leveraged this infrastructure to verify its first CXL product, the CMM-D successfully. Going forward, the company will leverage this infrastructure to provide tailored solutions to customers by optimizing products at earlier development stages.
CXL is a high-speed interconnect standard designed to improve communication between various data center components, including CPUs, GPUs, and memory devices.
It utilizes the PCIe interface to deliver lower latency and higher bandwidth compared to traditional standards. This translates to improved speed, latency, and scalability for existing data centers without significant cost increases.
The recent boom in artificial intelligence (AI) has driven the need for fundamental changes in server architecture. Data centers are facing new operational challenges due to the massive surge in data processing. CXL technology addresses this challenge by providing a more efficient way to manage data flow within servers.
In December 2023, Samsung collaborated with Red Hat to verify CXL memory operation in a real-world user environment. This partnership also led to Samsung becoming the first company to offer a CXL module, open-source software, and CXL DRAM supporting the CXL 2.0 standard.
Samsung has since expanded its Red Hat-certified products to include its data center solid-state drives (SSDs). This allows customers to build systems leveraging Red Hat-certified hardware with reliable Linux support.
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