Samsung Electronics , a leader in advanced memory technology , has announced for the first time in the industry , it has successfully verified Compute Express Link ( CXL ) memory operations in

a real user environment with open-source software provider Red Hat , leading the expansion of its CXL ecosystem . been at the forefront of building up the CXL memory ecosystem ,” said Yongcheol Bae , Executive Vice President , Memory Product Planning at Samsung Electronics . “ Our CXL partnership with Red Hat is an exemplary case of collaboration between advanced software and hardware , which will enrich and accelerate the CXL ecosystem as a whole .”

In this latest development , Samsung has optimised its CXL memory for Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( RHEL ) 9.3 and verified memory recognition , read and write operations in Red Hat ’ s KVM and Podman environments . This allows data centre clients to easily use Samsung ’ s CXL memory without having to make additional adjustments to their existing hardware .

“ The successful verification of Samsung ’ s CXL Memory Expander interoperability with Red Hat Enterprise

Linux is significant because it opens up the applicability of the CXL Memory Expander to IaaS1 and PaaS2-based software provided by Red Hat ,” said Marjet Andriesse , Senior Vice President and Head of Red Hat Asia Pacific . “ This is an important milestone in the integration of hardware and software to build an open-source ecosystem for nextgeneration memory development .”

Samsung and Red Hat are currently working together on a ‘ RHEL 9.3 CXL Memory Enabling Guide ’ to help users utilise Samsung ’ s CXL memory on RHEL 9.3 and build High- Performance Computing systems in various user environments .

The two companies first signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MOU ) in May 2022 to collaborate on nextgeneration memory and will continue their efforts through the Samsung Memory Research Center ( SMRC ) in developing CXL open-source and reference models . The ongoing partnership covers a range of storage and memory products , including NVMe SSDs , CXL Memory , computational memory / storage and fabrics . �

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Due to the exponential growth of data throughput and memory requirements for emerging fields like Generative AI , autonomous driving and in-memory databases ( IMDBs ), the demand for systems with greater memory bandwidth and capacity is also increasing . CXL is a unified interface standard that connects various processors , such as CPUs , GPUs and memory devices through a PCIe interface that can serve as a solution for limitations in existing systems in terms of speed , latency and expandability .

“ Samsung has been working closely with a wide range of industry partners in areas from software , data centres and servers to chipset providers , and has

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