BREAKING THE MEMORY WALL WITH CXL

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The Diligence Stack analyzes how Compute Express Link (CXL) technology breaks the persistent memory wall in high-density AI infrastructure. By utilizing PCIe physical interfaces to provide memory-semantic access, CXL enables memory expansion and multi-node pooling directly across server clusters. This architecture offloads Key-Value caches and massive vector databases from constrained GPU memory without severe latency penalties. Consequently, data centers can eliminate stranded DRAM resources, drastically reducing hardware costs, and scale memory capacity independently from fixed CPU channel limits.