Samsung Electronics Announces Successful Construction of Industry's First CXL Infrastructure Certified by Red Hat

Samsung can directly check server configuration items, including CXL products and software

The infrastructure will accelerate product development cycles and provide tailored solutions to customers

Samsung Electronics, a global leader in advanced memory technologies, today announced that, for the first time in the industry, it has successfully built a Compute Express Link™ (CXL™) infrastructure certified by Red Hat, the world’s leading provider. of open source solutions.

Items that configure servers, from CXL-related products to software, can now be directly verified at the Samsung Memory Research Center (SMRC) located in Hwaseong, South Korea. Once CXL products are verified by Samsung, they can immediately be requested for product registration with Red Hat, enabling faster product development.

Marking its first achievement through the infrastructure, Samsung successfully verified its CMM-D product for the first time in the industry this month. The company can also provide tailor-made solutions to customers by optimizing products from the early stages of development.

“We are very pleased that our partnership with Red Hat is able to provide our customers with CXL memory products with improved reliability,” said Taeksang Song, vice president and head of the new DRAM solutions development team. at Samsung Electronics. “Through our continued collaboration spanning software and hardware, we will remain at the forefront of the development of innovative memory solutions as well as the CXL ecosystem.”

Kyeong Sang Kim, general manager of Red Hat Korea, said: “Optimizing Samsung’s hardware for Red Hat’s software highlights the value of open source technology as an imperative when it comes to expanding next-generation memory solutions such as CMM-D. We look forward to continuing our collaboration with Samsung to further expand CXL solutions in the market.

Following Red Hat’s successful industry-first verification of CXL memory last December, Samsung has also been certified for data center SSD products. Customers using Red Hat certified products can build high-performance systems with world-class Linux support, complementing Samsung’s stable hardware operation.

Samsung and Red Hat have also worked closely in various areas, including product certification for hardware and software, enriching the next-generation CXL ecosystem.

At the Red Hat Summit in Denver, Colorado in May, Samsung demonstrated its CMM-D¹ integrated with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.3, which improves the performance of Deep Learning Recommendation Models (DLRM).

The demo used memory interleaving software technology from the Scalable Memory Development Kit (SMDK), highlighting improved memory access performance. The SMDK-equipped CMM-D enables customers to create high-performance AI models, without having to make significant investments, by accelerating the speeds of data processing, AI learning and inference.

Through their strong partnership, Samsung and Red Hat aim to provide customers with solutions suitable for a wide range of user systems while introducing new technology standards to a wide range of partners and customers and expanding the ecosystem of CXL memory.

¹ CMM-D is Samsung’s CXL DRAM memory module, a PCIe interface-based DRAM solution that supports the CXL protocol.