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CXL 3.0 Turns Up Scalability to 11Rambus BlogAug. 03, 2022 |
The CXL™ Consortium (of which Rambus is a member) has now released the 3.0 specification of the Compute Express Link™ (CXL) standard. CXL 3.0 introduces compelling new features that promise to increase data center performance, scalability and TCO. CXL has evolved rapidly from its introduction in 2019. The 1.0/1.1 specification enabled prototyping of CXL solutions. With 2.0 and the introduction of memory pooling, CXL reached the deployment phase. Now with CXL 3.0, we have capabilities that will power the scaling phase.
So, what’s new in CXL 3.0? Well, first up there’s a step function increase in data rate. CXL 1.x and 2.0 use the PCI Express® (PCIe®) 5.0 electricals for their physical layer: NRZ signaling at 32 Gigatransfers per second (GT/s). CXL 3.0 keeps that same philosophy of building on broadly adopted PCIe technology and extends it to the latest 6.0 version of the PCIe standard released earlier this year. That boosts CXL 3.0 data rates to 64 GT/s using PAM4 signaling.
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