Guangzhou, May 25, 2022-Samsung and Red Hat, an advanced memory technology vendor, announced today that they will cooperate extensively in software technology for next-generation memory solutions. Both parties will focus on the development and validation of existing and emerging open source software for memory and storage products, including NVMe SSDS, CXL memory, computational memory/storage (HBM-PIM, Smart SSD) and their architectures, to build a broad ecosystem for highly integrated memory hardware and software.
The exponential growth of data driven by artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and the coming metaverse is disruptive to memory design, requiring ever more sophisticated software technology to accommodate the latest advances in hardware.
Yongcheol Bae, Executive Vice President and head of Memory Application Engineering Team at Samsung Electronics, said: "Samsung and Red Hat will work together to develop and standardize memory software solutions to adapt to the evolving server and memory hardware, while building a more prosperous storage ecosystem. We will invite partners from the entire IT industry to join us, expand the hardware and software storage ecosystem, and create greater customer value."
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Marjet Andriesse, Senior Vice President and head of Asia Pacific for Red Hat, added, "In the coming data-centric era, the convergence of hardware and software architectures with a storage focus will become increasingly important, and Red Hat is therefore pleased to participate in Samsung's 'convergence' endeavor."
The partnership marks the first time Samsung has joined forces with an open-source software company to promote overall IT market participation. As an extension of this strategic collaboration, Samsung will launch the Samsung Memory Research Cloud (SMRC) project to develop and validate software solutions in different server environments.
As an open collaboration center, SMRC enables customers and partners to evaluate new software products in terms of configuring more optimized combinations of memory hardware.
Both parties will also engage open source communities such as the Linux Foundation to ensure that their software technologies are fully supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other open source software stacks.
Later this year, Samsung plans to launch the SMRC platform, which IT hopes will become a "catalyst" for future IT system innovation.
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