Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd, an innovator in secure, high-speed connectivity solutions, joins 33 other peers The companies jointly announced their efforts to standardize HiWire Consortium Compute Express Link (CXL) active cables (AEC) and optics.
CXL is designed to dramatically expand a server’s memory footprint and share compute, memory and storage resources at line rate across rack and row-level installations. However, existing passive copper connectivity solutions cannot meet this demand due to being short and bulky, and do not provide sufficient signal integrity for the upcoming PCIe6/CXL3.0 PAM4 64GT/s standard. The HiWire Consortium CXL cabling workflow is designed to leverage the existing simplicity and interoperability of HiWire Ethernet AEC to enable row-level CXL connectivity.
Don Barnetson, vice president of products at Credo and organizer of the HiWire Consortium, said: “Most cloud computing runs on Ethernet AEC, and the HiWire Consortium is a key player in standardizing Ethernet AEC. Our new CXL workflow will bring The same innovation that enables plug-and-play, low-cost, low-latency interconnect enables CXL to be installed across racks and rows.”
“External connectivity solutions will be key to enhancing the full potential of CXL-licensed Intel Xeon products,” said Jim Pappas, director of technology planning at Intel. “As a member of CXL and the HiWire Consortium, Intel is fully committed to supporting standardization.”
Gerald Degrace, Azure Sirius technical program director at Microsoft and an advisor to the HiWire Consortium, said: “Microsoft is a founding member of the HiWire Consortium and an early adopter of AEC because of its ease of use and interoperability within existing standards. We are very pleased We are pleased to be working with the HiWire Consortium on CXL standardization and are committed to achieving the same seamless interoperability for the next generation of external interconnects.”
Our mission is to provide high-speed connectivity solutions that continue to break the bandwidth barrier for every wired connection in the data infrastructure market. Credo is an innovator in delivering secure, high-speed connectivity solutions that deliver lower power consumption and greater cost-effectiveness as data rates and corresponding bandwidth requirements increase exponentially across the data infrastructure market. Our innovation reduces system power consumption while easing system bandwidth bottlenecks, and improves system security and reliability. Our connectivity solutions are optimized for optical and electrical connections in Ethernet applications, including the emerging 100G (or GB/s), 200G, 400G, 800G and latest 1.6T (TB/s) port markets. Credo products are based on serialization/deserialization (SerDes) and digital signal processor (DSP) proprietary technologies. Our product lines include chips (ICs), active cables (AECs) and SerDes chiplets, and intellectual property (IP) solutions mainly include SerDes IP licensing.
SOURCE: Businesswire