November 30, 2024

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A CXL-based memory expander (SK hynix)

South Korean memory chip maker SK hynix said Monday that it has sampled the first memory product under the compute express link memory interface, a concept considered a game-changer in the electronics industry that is facing memory storage bottleneck.

The announcement heralds SK hynix‘s long-awaited move to enter the market and roll out expandable CXL memory products for servers by 2023, according to the world’s second-largest DRAM chip maker.

CXL is a newly-emerging semiconductor standard increasing the efficiency in the performance of processors, accelerators and memory products, as the concept of high-performance computing systems in the field of artificial intelligence and big data-related applications is under the spotlight.

“(SK hynix) aims to mass-produce CXL memory products by 2023,“ Kang Uk-song, head of DRAM product planning of SK hynix, said in a statement.

”... (SK hynix) will continue to develop cutting-edge DRAM technologies and advanced packaging technologies to launch various CXL-based bandwidth and capacity expandable memory solution products.”

According to SK hynix, the sampled product is a 96-gigabyte memory expander that is composed of a 24-gigabit double data rate 5 DRAM.

The CXL-based chip products provide a processor chip with new pools of short-term memory capacity without unnecessary costs and complexities, as opposed to a chip architecture solely composed of memory chips.

By Son Ji-hyoung (consnow@heraldcorp.com)