Micron announced the launch of the CZ120 memory expansion module and began sending samples to customers and partners for testing.CXL (Compute Express Link)Market ecology.
The CZ120 memory expansion module adopts the E3.S 2T form factor design and supports the PCIe Gen 5 x8 interface. It can correspond to 128GB and 256GB memory capacities respectively, and provides 36GB/s read and write speeds. It can be used in server systems that require expanded memory and data transfer speeds.
The CZ120 memory expansion module itself adopts the second-generation CXL Type 3 standard and adopts a dual-channel memory system architecture and Micron memory process. It can be used for application needs such as SaaS (software as a service), artificial intelligence training, inference models, memory databases, and high-performance computing, and can also cope with local server or cloud virtualization application workloads.
This memory expansion module provides customers with the flexibility to build servers with larger capacity and lower latency to meet application workload demands. Compared to servers using only RDIMM memory, servers using the CZ120 can increase daily database queries by up to 96%, and memory read and write bandwidth per CPU by 24%. It also enables independent software vendors, cloud service providers, OEMs, and ODMs to build servers with up to 2TB of memory capacity. Memory expansion can also reduce capital and operating expenses for data center applications while improving server computing performance.
"The Micron CZ120 is sampling to key customers, a milestone that will accelerate the adoption of CXL," said Siva Makineni, vice president of Micron's Advanced Memory Systems Group. "We continue to develop and test the CZ120 memory expansion module using Intel and AMD platforms that support the CXL standard. Through product innovation and close collaboration with the CXL ecosystem, Micron will accelerate the growing adoption of this new standard to meet the growing demands of data centers and their memory-intensive workloads."
"To accelerate the establishment and expansion of the CXL ecosystem, Intel and Micron are collaborating to test and evaluate Micron's CZ120 memory expansion module on Intel's XNUMXth Generation Xeon Scalable processors and Xeon platforms," said Jim Pappas, director of technology initiatives at Intel.
“AMD and Micron have been long-standing partners. Since the launch of our EPYC™ processors, Micron’s memory has been validated on multiple platforms powered by AMD EPYC processors,” said Mahesh Wagh, Senior Fellow, Server System Architect, AMD. “With the introduction of the CXL standard, we are extending this collaboration to include the Micron CZ120 memory expansion module. We recently tested AMD’s EPYC 120 processor using the CZ9754 module and achieved excellent performance on the TPC-H benchmark compared to using DRAM alone.”
