Samsung Electronics "Next-Generation Memory Also Achieves Technological Superiority"... Expands Ecosystem

Industry's First CXL Memory Software Development Solution Unveiled

Samsung Electronics has developed the industry's first CXL-based DRAM.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Heung-soon] Samsung Electronics, after declaring the strengthening of system semiconductor competitiveness with advanced fine processes in the foundry (semiconductor contract manufacturing) sector, is now aiming to secure a technological gap in the memory semiconductor market, its mainstay, by introducing next-generation DRAM.

On the 7th, Samsung Electronics unveiled an open-source based software solution to expand the ecosystem of DRAM memory technology based on 'Compute Express Link (CXL)', which it developed for the first time in the industry.

Earlier, in May, Samsung Electronics introduced the world's first CXL-based DRAM technology. Typically, to use a new type of memory installed in a system, not only hardware but also software development must be supported.

By utilizing the solution called 'Scalable Memory Development Kit (SMDK)', software developers can adjust the priority of use, usage amount, bandwidth, and security features of existing memory and CXL memory according to various system environments without having to separately create functions necessary for program development.

CXL is a next-generation 'interface' (a medium that allows information devices to exchange data) designed to elevate the performance of existing computing systems to handle high-performance computations such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and big data.

It expands memory capacity by being additionally installed alongside existing main DRAM (DDR) in the system. Applying CXL-based DRAM can more than double the existing memory capacity from gigabyte levels to terabyte levels (1TB = 1024GB).

Samsung Electronics plans to first conduct evaluation and verification with major customers in various application environments such as AI and edge cloud, and then make SMDK available to all developers around the first half of next year.

As the world’s number one in memory, Samsung Electronics has set a goal to leap beyond simply manufacturing semiconductor chips to becoming a comprehensive memory solution company, and has been concurrently conducting software research and development and investment.

Park Cheol-min, Executive Vice President of the Memory Business Division Product Planning Team at Samsung Electronics, said, "We will continuously provide comprehensive memory solutions encompassing hardware and software so that customers can develop new systems in a timely manner and the ecosystem can rapidly expand."

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