Micron Unveils 128GB and 256GB CXL 2.0 Expansion Modules

tomshardware.com

23 points·stevefan1999··6 comments

Pretty damned small. We're seeing 15, 30TB SSD modules cropping up left and right now. Unless there's some really amazing other considerations, 256 GB seems insignificant.

Also, CXL 3.0 turned 1 years old already. And it's such a vastly more interesting spec, where rather than being a purely host-attached subsystem it actually allows switching. This feels incredibly behind the times, not just in terms of capacity, but in terms of ecosystem capability.

I'm very pscyhed for CXL. And I think Micron as a company has enormously great shit to do. But this aint it. This is so damned uncompelling & uncompetitive.

We’re talking DRAM here, not NAND?

> We're seeing 15, 30TB SSD modules cropping up left and right now. Unless there's some really amazing other considerations, 256 GB seems insignificant.

Did you miss the part where these modules are DRAM, not NAND flash? These things are intended for use cases where SSDs are quite unsuitable.

At least get your numbers right.

Indeed, Micron is behind Samsung who has 512GB modules but that has nothing to do with SSDs.

https://news.samsung.com/global/samsung-electronics-introduc...

This implies something popular to plug it into.

Maybe AMD MI200 systems?

https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2022-11-10-offering-un...

>In addition, 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors support CXL® 1.1+ for memory expansion, helping customers to meet demands for larger in-memory workload capacity.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com