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Marvell Introduces Breakthrough Structera CXL Product Line to Address Server Memory Bandwidth and Capacity Challenges in Cloud Data Centers
New product line is the industry's first to integrate Arm® Neoverse® processors, inline compression, and four memory channels. Structera™ A CXL near-memory
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[{"type":"text","content":"New product line is the industry's first to integrate Arm® Neoverse® processors, inline compression, and four memory channels. Structera™ A CXL near-memory accelerator family is optimized to address high-bandwidth memory applications such as deep learning and ML/AI on general-purpose servers.Structera™ X CXL memory-expansion controller family is the first to support up to 12 DDR4 memory modules, enabling module recycling to reduce e-waste and maximize server memory capacity for applications such as in-memory databases.SANTA CLARA, Calif., July 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a leader in data infrastructure semiconductor solutions, today launched the Marvell® Structera™ product line of Compute Express Link® (CXL®) devices that enable cloud data center operators to overcome memory performance and scaling challenges in general-purpose servers.\nTo address memory-intensive applications, data center operators add extra servers to get higher memory bandwidth and higher memory capacity. The compute capabilities from the added processors are typically not utilized for these applications, making the servers inefficient from cost and power perspectives. The CXL industry standard addresses this challenge by enabling new architectures that can efficiently add memory to general-purpose servers.\nThe Structera product line comprises two CXL device families that are optimized for different use cases. The Structera A CXL near-memory accelerators are a new category of devices that integrate server-class processor cores and multiple memory channels with CXL to address high-bandwidth memory applications such as deep learning recommendation models (DLRM) and machine learning. The Structera X CXL memory-expansion controllers enable terabytes of memory to be added to general-purpose servers and address high-capacity memory applications such as in-memory databases. The Structera CXL device families are the industry's first to support four memory channels, integrate inline compression and use 5nm manufacturing processes.\nIn addition to the Structera A and X standard products, Marvell develops custom CXL silicon for cloud operators that is optimized for their unique architectures and workloads.\nA New CXL Use Case: ML/AI Acceleration\nThe Structera A accelerators integrate 16 Arm® Neoverse® V2 cores and are optimized t...