
chipsandcheese.com
August 30, 2026
9 min read
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Summary
Memory expansion has been attractive for years, and is more relevant than ever because ML models have an insatiable appetite for memory capacity. In response, XCENA has worked with Samsung to create a CXL memory expansion device that can also host SSDs and do compute. The device is called MX1, where MX stands for “Memory Xcelerator”. On the memory expansion front, the MX1 can host up to 2 TB of DD...