Shepherd showcases new CXL protocol storage products based on XL-Flash and traditional flash memory

Thanks to CTOnews.com netizen OC_Formula for the clue delivery! CTOnews.com, August 13, most of the CXL devices we've seen so far are Type-3 memory expansion devices, but Shearer showed off a product based on CXL + BiCS flash memory on FMS 2023.

CTOnews.com Note: CXL is a technology jointly developed by Intel, AMD and other companies, which supports memory sharing and cache sharing, and can be used in cloud computing, artificial intelligence, high-performance computing and other fields.

As shown in the figure, Armor has two different CXL series products, one is CXL + BiCS traditional flash memory, and the other is CXL + XL-Flash (Armor's SLC NAND SLC solution).

In fact, the specification of this series of flash memory is very interesting, and this will be one of the first CXL x4 products. According to reports, it can use CXL.mem for reading and CXL.io for writing.

In August last year, the armor launched its second-generation XL-FLASH, a storage (SCM) solution based on BiCS FLASH 3D flash technology that significantly reduces unit costs while providing high performance and low latency.

According to reports, in addition to the existing models of SLC units, the second generation of XL-FLASH also added a per-unit MLC part, which greatly reduced the cost, but its capacity is only 256 GB.