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  • April 18, 2025

    Five Ways CXL Will Transform Computing

    By Michael Kanellos, Head of Influencer Relations, Marvell

    This story was also featured in Electronic Design

    Some technologies experience stunning breakthroughs every year. In memory, it can be decades between major milestones. Burroughs invented magnetic memory in 1952 so ENIAC wouldn’t lose time pulling data from punch cards1. In the 1970s DRAM replaced magnetic memory while in the 2010s, HBM arrived.

    Compute Express Link (CXL) represents the next big step forward. CXL devices essentially take advantage of available PCIe interfaces to open an additional conduit that complements the overtaxed memory bus. More lanes, more data movement, more performance. 

    Additionally, and arguably more importantly, CXL will change how data centers are built, operate and work. It’s a technology that will have a ripple effect. Here are a few scenarios on how it can potentially impact infrastructure:

    1. DLRM Gets Faster and More Efficient

    Memory bandwidth—the amount of memory that can be transmitted from memory to a processor per second—has chronically been a bottleneck because processor performance increases far faster and more predictably than bus speed or bus capacity. To help contain that gap, designers have added more lanes or added co-processors.

    Marvell® StructeraTM A does both. The first-of-its-kind device in a new industry category of memory accelerators, Structera A sports 16 Arm Neoverse N2 cores, 200 Gbps of memory bandwidth, up to 4TB of memory and consumes under 100 watts along with processing fabric and other Marvell-only technology. It’s essentially a server-within-a-server with outsized memory bandwidth for bandwidth-intensive tasks like inference or deep learning recommendation models (DRLM). Cloud providers need to program their software to offload tasks to Structera A, but doing so brings a number of benefits.

    Marvell Structera A

    Take a high-end x86 processor. Today it might sport 64 cores, 400 Gbps of memory bandwidth, up to 2TB of memory (i.e. four top-of-the-line 512GB DIMMs), and consume a maximum 400 watts for a data transmission power rate 1W per GB/sec.

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  • November 12, 2020

    Flash Memory Summit Names Marvell a 2020 Best of Show Award Winner

    By Lindsey Moore, Marketing Coordinator, Marvell

    Marvell wins FMS Award for Most Innovative Technology

    Flash Memory Summit, the industry's largest trade show dedicated to flash memory and solid-state storage technology, presented its 2020 Best of Show Awards yesterday in a virtual ceremony. Marvell, alongside Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), was named a winner for "Most Innovative Flash Memory Technology" in the controller/system category for the Marvell NVMe RAID accelerator in the HPE OS Boot Device.

    Last month, Marvell introduced the industry’s first native NVMe RAID 1 accelerator, a state-of-the-art technology for virtualized, multi-tenant cloud and enterprise data center environments which demand optimized reliability, efficiency, and performance. HPE is the first of Marvell's partners to support the new accelerator in the HPE NS204i-p NVMe OS Boot Device offered on select HPE ProLiant servers and HPE Apollo systems. The solution lowers data center total cost of ownership (TCO) by offloading RAID 1 processing from costly and precious server CPU resources, maximizing application processing performance.

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