CXL and Memory Expansion

How is CXL memory pooling making a difference in AI data centers?

William G. Wong

Anil Gobole

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Electronic Design

Sept. 9, 2026

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What you’ll learn:

What is CXL?
How CXL memory pooling is changing storage usage.
What’s up with DDR4 and CXL?

Compute Express Link (CXL) is becoming more important in data centers as the need for more storage grows to address artificial-intelligence (AI) needs. It can provide cache-coherent, non-uniform memory access (NUMA) to processors, GPUs, and NPUs in AI data centers to handle ever-larger AI models. CXL is built around the latest PCI Express technology much like NVMe, another storage technology.

I talked with Anil Gobaleh, Chair of the Marketing Working Group (MWG) with the CXL Consortium, about the latest advances in CXL and where it’s headed. One of the interesting aspects in our discussion is how DDR4 is being used with CXL, which targets the high end dominated by DDR5.

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About the Author

William G. Wong

Senior Content Director - Electronic Design and Microwaves & RF

I am Editor of Electronic Design focusing on embedded, software, and systems. As Senior Content Director, I also manage Microwaves & RF and I work with a great team of editors to provide engineers, programmers, developers and technical managers with interesting and useful articles and videos on a regular basis. Check out our free newsletters to see the latest content.

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I earned a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Computer Science from Rutgers University. I still do a bit of programming using everything from C and C++ to Rust and Ada/SPARK. I do a bit of PHP programming for Drupal websites. I have posted a few Drupal modules.

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Anil Gobole

Xeon CXL Strategy & Marketing Manager, Intel, and Chair of the Marketing Working Group (MWG) at CXL Consortium

Anil Gobole is Xeon CXL Strategy & Marketing Manager with Intel and Chair of the Marketing Working Group (MWG) with the CXL Consortium. He was co-founder of Precision Test. Anil earned a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.