Far-ranging collaboration in next-generation memory software technology aimed at gaining full support throughout the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
Samsung Electronics, the world
leader in advanced memory technology, and Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading
provider of open source solutions, today announced a broad collaboration on
software technologies for next-generation memory solutions. The partnership
will focus on the development and validation of open source software for
existing and emerging memory and storage products, including NVMe SSDs; CXL
memory; computational memory/storage (HBM-PIM, Smart SSDs) and fabrics — in
building an expansive ecosystem for closely integrated memory hardware and
software.
The exponential growth of data
driven by AI, AR and the fast-approaching metaverse is bringing disruptive
changes to memory designs, requiring more sophisticated software technologies
that better link with the latest hardware advancements.
“Samsung and Red Hat will make a concerted
effort to define and standardize memory software solutions that embrace
evolving server and memory hardware, while building a more robust memory
ecosystem,” said Yongcheol Bae, Executive Vice President and Head of the Memory
Application Engineering Team at Samsung Electronics. “We will invite partners
from across the IT industry to join us in expanding the software-hardware
memory ecosystem to create greater customer value.”
“In the upcoming data-centric era, the
integration of memory-centric hardware and software architectures will become
increasingly essential, and for this purpose, Red Hat is happy to participate
in the joint undertaking with Samsung,” added Marjet Andriesse, Senior Vice
President and Head of Red Hat Asia Pacific.
The new partnership marks the
first time that Samsung has joined forces with an open source software company
to foster engagements across the IT marketplace. As an extension to this
strategic collaboration, Samsung will launch the Samsung Memory Research Cloud
(SMRC), where the two companies will develop and verify software solutions on
diverse server environments.
Serving as an open collaboration
hub, the SMRC will enable customers and partners to evaluate new software
products in configuring optimal combinations with memory hardware.
The companies will also
participate in open source communities such as the Linux Foundation, to ensure
that their software technology has full support in Red Hat Enterprise Linux,
and with other open source software stacks.
Samsung plans to open its SMRC
platform in the second half of this year and expects it to act as an ongoing
catalyst for innovation in future IT systems.