Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device
Summary
Chips and Cheese coverage of Hot Chips 2026 presents XCENA and Samsung’s MX1, a near-memory compute CXL device that combines DDR5 memory expansion with onboard compute. The MX1 uses up to 2 TB of memory, PCIe 6/CXL 3.2 x8 bandwidth, 3072 RISC-V cores, and a vector processing engine, with SSDs exposed as memory to extend capacity and performance.