# Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung's Near-Memory Compute CXL Device

DevFeed: [Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung's Near-Memory Compute CXL Device](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsung-s-near-memory-compute-cxl-device-13999.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://chipsandcheese.com/p/hot-chips-2026-xcena-and-samsungs>)

Author: Chester Lam

Published: 2026-08-30T07:25:37Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Chips and Cheese](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/chips-and-cheese.md>)

Topics: [samsung](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/samsung.md>), [ddr5](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ddr5.md>), [RISC-V](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/riscv.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cache.md>), [Arm](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/arm.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intel.md>)

Tags: [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [arm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/arm.md>), [cache](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cache.md>), [capacity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/capacity.md>), [clusters](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/clusters.md>), [compute](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compute.md>), [core](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core.md>), [ddr5](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ddr5.md>), [dram](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dram.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intel.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [parallel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/parallel.md>), [pcie](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pcie.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [risc-v](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/risc-v.md>), [samsung](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/samsung.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines XCENA and Samsung's MX1, a CXL memory expansion device that can host up to 2 TB of DDR5 memory, connect SSDs, and provide onboard compute through 3,072 RISC-V cores. It describes the device's memory bandwidth, cache hierarchy, power use, and focus on data-parallel workloads.

## Source excerpt

CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute