Disruptive Platform Combines Marvell's CXL
Technology with New 4th Gen AMD EPYC Processors to
Accelerate Cloud Data Center Architecture Revolution
SANTA
CLARA, Calif., Nov. 10,
2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology,
Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure
semiconductor solutions, today announced a Compute Express
Link™ Development Platform for cloud data center operators and
server OEMs. The platform pairs the company's advanced CXL
technology with the latest CXL CPUs, including the new
4th Gen AMD EPYC™
processors, demonstrating multi-host memory pooling on these
processors. Today, memory is a common bottleneck in cloud data
center performance, as memory performance does not scale at the
same rate as CPU performance. CXL technology eliminates this
bottleneck by allowing flexible expansion and pooling of memory
resources. Addressing the memory-scaling constraint is critical for
compute- and memory-intensive applications such as artificial
intelligence, machine learning, analytics, and large-scale search.
With the new Marvell CXL Development Platform, cloud operators can
begin to optimize their infrastructure and enable their
applications to take advantage of this cutting-edge technology.
The platform provides for two CXL functions: memory expansion
and memory pooling. Expansion enables the addition of memory
resources at will, without the bandwidth degradation associated
with traditional memory expansion using dual-inline memory module
(DIMM) slots. Pooling allows memory to be shared and dynamically
allocated across CPUs rather than allocated to a specific CPU. Both
functions result in higher system-wide memory resource utilization,
including the ability to make use of previously stranded
memory.
The announcement of the development platform is Marvell's first
public step towards CXL productization following the company's
recent acquisition of CXL-specialist Tanzanite. Marvell's vision
for the next-generation cloud data center is one in which the
architecture is disaggregated and fully composable. The integration
of CXL technology across the company's comprehensive,
cloud-optimized portfolio of compute, electro-optics, networking,
security and storage silicon will facilitate new data center
architectures with significant efficiency and performance
benefits.
"Data center memory directly being tied to processors is
limiting cloud infrastructure scaling and overall efficiencies. CXL
is going to change that," said Thad
Omura, vice president marketing, Flash Business Unit,
Marvell. "We're committed to giving our customers and partners the
tools they need to integrate CXL technology into their designs as
quickly as possible. Together with AMD and their 4th Gen
EPYC processors, we're enabling them to do just that. With our new
development platform cloud operators and OEMs are on the path to
better system memory utilization and lower DRAM/memory costs."
"4th Gen AMD EPYC processors
continue to raise the bar for workload performance in the modern
data center while simultaneously delivering exceptional energy
efficiency," said Ram Peddibhotla, corporate vice president, EPYC
product management, AMD. "4th Gen AMD EPYC processors will transform our
customers' data center operations by accelerating time to value,
driving lower total cost of ownership, and helping enterprises to
address their sustainability goals."
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technology companies for over 25 years, we move, store, process and
secure the world's data with semiconductor solutions designed for
our customers' current needs and future ambitions. Through a
process of deep collaboration and transparency, we're ultimately
changing the way tomorrow's enterprise, cloud, automotive, and
carrier architectures transform—for the better.
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