- Xcena has introduced MX1 calculation memory with thousands of RISC-V cores at FMS 2025
- MX1 provides almost processing of data for the processor’s general costs and activating sustained expansion of the SSD on a petactive scale
- The product roadmap includes MX1P this year and MX1 in 2026 supporting CXL 3.2
During the recent FMS 2025 event (formerly Flash Memory Summit, but now called Future of Memory and Storage to better adapt to its enlarged development), the South Korean startup Xcena took the wraps of its first product, MX1 Computational Memory.
MX1 is built on the PCIe Gen6 standard and the Calpeput Express Link 3.2 standard. By putting the calculation directly next to DRAM, the chip is able to reduce the general costs of the movement of data between processors and memory.
Known as the processing of almost data, this approach could well influence the way servers are designed in the years to come.
Thousands of Risc-V hearts
XCENA says that he has piled up “thousands” of internal RISC-V nuclei in the MX1 in order to manage workloads such as vector database operations, analysis and heavy memory requests.
The expansion of the memory supported by SSD allows a capacity of a scale of petacts while adding compression and reliability features.
Serve Reports there will be two different models available. The MX1P is later scheduled for this year (Xcena says that the work samples will be made available for certain partners from October), while the MX1, with Dual PCIe Gen6 X8 and additional features, should be released in 2026.
The two will benefit from the broader bandwidth and flexibility offered by the CXL 3.2 standard.
The product won the prize “The most innovative memory technology” at FMS 2025, making it the second consecutive recognition of the company during the event, after being called “the most innovative startup” in 2024.
“Calculation memory represents an emerging architectural approach which aims to accelerate performance and efficiency, in particular for tasks with high data intensity.
“We are proud to recognize Xcena with MX1, the first computing memory controller in the world taking charge of CXL 3.X and allowing high speed acceleration for workloads with high data intensity such as AI and analysis.”
In the hope of stimulating interest in its product, Xcena, which was founded in 2022 under the name of Metisx, offers a software development kit which includes pilots, execution libraries and tools.
The battery is designed to adapt to standard environments so that developers can assess and deploy the MX1 in applications ranging from IA inference to memory analysis.
