Microchip enters memory infrastructure market

Microchip Technology has announced an expanded data centre portfolio and its entrance into the memory infrastructure market. As the computational demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning workloads accelerate, traditional parallel attached DRAM memory has presented a major roadblock for next-generation CPUs, which require an increased number of memory channels to deliver more memory bandwidth. Microchip's decision to enter the infrastructure market comes as it introduces the industry’s first commercially available serial memory controller. The SMC 1000 8x25G enables CPUs and other compute-centric SoCs to utilize four times the memory channels of parallel attached DDR4 DRAM within the same package footprint. The serial memory controllers are able to deliver higher memory bandwidth and media independence to these compute-intensive platforms with ultra-low latency.