Samsung Electronics Co. is putting a lot of effort into securing its involvement in next-generation memory technology, CXL (Compute Express Link). In a media briefing on Thursday, Jangseok Choi, vice president of Samsung's new business planning team, announced plans to mass-produce 256 GB DRAM supporting CXL 2.0 by the end of this year. CXL technology promises to significantly enhance the efficiency of high-performance server systems by providing a unified interface for accelerators, DRAM, and storage devices used with CPUs and GPUs.

The company projects that CXL technology will increase memory capacity per server by eight to ten times, marking a significant leap in computing power. Samsung's long investment in CXL development is now in the final stages with the company currently testing products with partners for performance verification, Samsung recently established the industry's first CXL infrastructure certified by Red Hat. "We expect the CXL market to start blooming in the second half and explosively grow from 2028," Choi stated, highlighting the technology's potential to expand memory capacity and bandwidth far beyond current limitations.
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