Marvell achieves successful interoperability of Structera CXL portfolio with AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms

Marvell Technology announced that its Structera portfolio of Compute Express Link (CXL) devices has demonstrated interoperability with AMD EPYC processors and 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable platforms. This development supports the adoption of CXL 2.0 solutions in next-generation cloud data centers, addressing memory bandwidth and capacity demands.

Key highlights:

- Interoperability testing with AMD and Intel across various workloads and configurations validated stability, scalability, and performance.
- Structera supports memory expansion and workload acceleration for cloud service providers and OEMs.
- Enables deployment across diverse hardware configurations using both AMD and Intel architectures.

Product details:

- Structera A includes near-memory accelerators with Arm Neoverse V2 cores, DDR5 support, and up to 1.6 Tbps bandwidth for workloads like deep learning recommendation models.
- Structera X offers memory expansion using DDR4 and DDR5 DIMMs, focused on cost and energy efficiency.

Executive commentary:

Will Chu of Marvell stated that the collaboration with AMD and Intel supports a scalable infrastructure and reduces complexity. Raghu Nambiar of AMD emphasized combining EPYC processors with Marvell’s CXL solutions to improve memory efficiency and flexibility. Richelle Ahlvers of Intel confirmed support for CXL 2.0 to optimize memory deployment across data centers.