Samsung, Red Hat to Work on Linux Drivers for Future Tech
Summary
The metaverse is expected to uproot system design as we know it, and Samsung is one of many hardware vendors re-imagining data center infrastructure in preparation for a parallel 3D world. Samsung is working on new memory technologies that provide faster bandwidth inside hardware for data to travel between CPUs, storage and other computing resources. The work will largely be around driver development for new technologies that include CXL (Compute Express Link), an emerging interconnect that shuttles data between CPUs to memory, storage and other chips in the system at unprecedented speeds. Samsung said CXL can support up to 16TB of memory for each CPU, far expanding the capacity of technologies like DDR (double data rate), which is reaching its limits as AI and metaverse applications proliferate. A system may have large amounts of memory, but the software is also an important aspect to ensure the data is moving through the hardware efficiently, said Jim McGregor, principal analyst at Tirias Research.