RESEARCH PAPER: CXL: Enabling A Heterogenous, Composable, Next-Generation Data Center

By Patrick Moorhead - August 31, 2022

Data has become one of the most valuable and, at the same time, abundant resources in the world. More data has been created in the past three years than in the past two decades, and the biggest challenge has been to process this data into insight.

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Summary
What Is CXL?
CXL vs PCIe
Demystifying The Different CXL Specifications
CXL Is An Open, Industry Standards
Wrapping Up
Table 1: CXL Configurations
Table 2: CXL Standards And Release Dates
Figure 1: CXL 3.0 Multi-Level Switching Configurations
Figure 2: Memory And Storage Heirachy
Figure 3: CXL Consortium Board Of Directors

Companies Cited

AWS
Google
Micron
Microsoft
Oracle

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Patrick founded the firm based on his real-world world technology experiences with the understanding of what he wasn’t getting from analysts and consultants. Ten years later, Patrick is ranked #1 among technology industry analysts in terms of “power” (ARInsights) in “press citations” (Apollo Research). Moorhead is a contributor at Forbes and frequently appears on CNBC. He is a broad-based analyst covering a wide variety of topics including the cloud, enterprise SaaS, collaboration, client computing, and semiconductors. He has 30 years of experience including 15 years of executive experience at high tech companies (NCR, AT&T, Compaq, now HP, and AMD) leading strategy, product management, product marketing, and corporate marketing, including three industry board appointments.