In die­ser Sek­ti­on wer­den Pres­se­mit­tei­lun­gen der Her­stel­ler 1:1 ver­öf­fent­licht. Pla­net 3DNow! über­nimmt weder für die Rich­tig­keit der Anga­ben noch für die Art der For­mu­lie­rung jed­we­de Ver­ant­wor­tung. Die Anga­ben kön­nen sub­jek­tiv sein und geben nicht not­wen­di­ger­wei­se die Mei­nung der auf Pla­net 3DNow! schrei­ben­den Autoren wieder.

CXL™ Consortium & Gen‑Z Consortium Sign Letter of Intent to Advance Interconnect Technology

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Novem­ber 10, 2021 — High per­for­mance com­pu­ting con­ti­nues to evolve—meeting the ever-incre­asing demand for high effi­ci­en­cy, low-laten­cy, rapid and seam­less pro­ces­sing. The Gen‑Z Con­sor­ti­um was foun­ded in 2016 to crea­te a next-gene­ra­ti­on fabric capa­ble of bridging exis­ting solu­ti­ons while enab­ling new, unboun­ded inno­va­ti­on in an open, non-pro­prie­ta­ry stan­dards body.

In 2019, the CXL™ Con­sor­ti­um laun­ched to deli­ver Com­pu­te Express Link™ (CXL™), an indus­try-sup­port­ed cache-coher­ent inter­con­nect desi­gned for pro­ces­sors, memo­ry expan­si­on, and acce­le­ra­tors. The CXL Con­sor­ti­um and the Gen‑Z Con­sor­ti­um estab­lished a joint memo­ran­dum of under­stan­ding (MOU) pro­vi­ding an oppor­tu­ni­ty for col­la­bo­ra­ti­on to defi­ne bridging bet­ween the pro­to­cols. This took the form of a joint working group that encou­ra­ged crea­ti­vi­ty and inno­va­ti­on bet­ween the two orga­niza­ti­ons toward the bet­ter­ment of the indus­try as a whole. 

Loo­king to the future, the CXL Con­sor­ti­um and Gen‑Z Con­sor­ti­um have iden­ti­fied syn­er­gies bet­ween the two con­sor­tia that resul­ted in the sig­ning of a Let­ter of Intent which, if pas­sed and agreed upon by all par­ties, would trans­fer the Gen‑Z Spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­ons and all Gen‑Z assets to the CXL Consortium.

The intent of both orga­niza­ti­ons is to focus indus­try efforts rela­ted to the deve­lo­p­ment of a memo­ry coher­ent inter­face under the CXL Con­sor­ti­um with CXL as the sole indus­try stan­dard moving for­ward. This shift will help stream­li­ne the tech­no­lo­gy deve­lo­p­ment under a sin­gle, laser-focu­sed orga­niza­ti­on. Mem­ber com­pa­nies will be able to dedi­ca­te resour­ces to one indus­try orga­niza­ti­on and eli­mi­na­te the risk of dupli­ca­ted efforts. 

We’re exci­ted about the oppor­tu­ni­ty to focus the com­pu­ting indus­try on a sin­gle spe­ci­fi­ca­ti­on moving for­ward. We’ve been working tog­e­ther sin­ce the incep­ti­on of the CXL Con­sor­ti­um, and we belie­ve that this is the right step for­ward for our mem­bers and the indus­try ecosystem.