NVIDIA joins the CXL Consirtum created by Intel and in which AMD is also present

Robert Sole August 9, 2019

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Now it is NVIDIA that has joined the CXL Consortium, which seeks to develop a data bus to create high-performance clusters under PCIe 5.0

A few months ago, Intel announced the creation of the new standard CXL (Compute Express Link) under PCIe 5.0. The company has created a consortium to which the companies they want can be added and develop under this standard. The last to jump on the bandwagon had been AMD. This consortium has 58 companies, including Gigabyte, Micron, Google or Alibaba. Now NVIDIA has joined.

CXL Consortium seeks the development of the new high-speed data bus standard. This has been developed to interconnect the processors and other components such as graphics, RAM and others, to create a cluster. It seeks to create a high-performance solution for the fields of computing and AI. The interesting thing about this standard is that it is open source.

NVIDIA joins the CXL Consortium created by Intel

NVIDIA currently has the NVLink high-bandwidth bus, which has taken years to develop. CXL does not only seek to interconnect graphics, it seeks to interconnect all system components with other systems. It is normal that in the end the company has decided to enter the consortium. Especially if we consider that they have recently acquired Mellanox, one of the most important server communication companies.

Its development is based on the PCIe 5.0 standard, which Intel will add to its motherboards in 2021 along with DDR5 RAM. This new data bus will offer up to 64GB / s of transfer in both directions, basically the same as PCIe 5.0.

This addition is important as NVIDIA is currently a leader in AI solutions. The company offers high-performance solutions for creating advanced clusters and supercomputers for AI. So the big three in the hardware industry come together to develop high-performance solutions. Definitely great news.