CES: SK hynix to Exhibit AI Memories

SK hynix Inc. will showcase the technology for performance memory products, the core of future AI infrastructure, at CES 2024, the tech event from January 9 through 12 in Las Vegas, NV.

The company will highlight its future vision represented by its Memory Centric ^(*) at the show and promote the importance of memory products accelerating the technological innovation in the AI era and its competitiveness in the global memory markets.It will run a space titled SK Wonderland jointly with other major SK Group affiliates including SK Inc., SK Innovation and SK Telecom, and showcase its major AI memory products including HBM3E.
The company plans to provide HBM3E, a performing memory product that it developed in August to the world’s largest AI technology companies by starting mass production from the 1H24.

At SK Group’s space with an amusement-park theme, the firm will display an AI Fortuneteller where the generative AI technology based on HBM3E is applied. The AI fortuneteller is expected to give visitors fresh fun by creating an image of their cartoon characters based on their own faces and reading New Year fortunes.

CXL 2.0 memory

The company’s AI technology will also be displayed at the SK ICT Family Demo Room jointly run by other SK ICT companies. The firm will showcase Compute Express Link ( CXL**), next-gen interface, a test product of Computational Memory Solution (CMS), memory solution that integrates the computational functions of CXL, and Accelerator-in-Memory based Accelerator (AiMX***), a processing-in-memory chip-based accelerator card with low-cost and efficiency for generative AI.

Computational Memory Solution (CMS)

Particularly, CXL memory, along with HBM, is one of the core products in the limelight with the rise of AI technology. The company plans to commercialize 96GB and 128GB CXL 2.0 memory solutions based on DDR5 in the 2H24 for shipments to AI customers.

Accelerator-in-Memory based Accelerator (AiMX)

“We are thrilled to showcase our technology, which has risen to the core of the AI infrastructure in the U.S., home to AI technology,” said Justin Kim, president (head of AI Infra). “SK hynix will step up its efforts for collaboration with global players, while seeking to accelerate a turnaround in business with its leadership in the AI memory space.”

^(*) Memory Centric: An SK hynix vision where memory products play a pivotal role in ICT devices
^(**) CXL (Compute Express Link): a PCIe-based next-generation interconnect protocol, on which HPC systems are based
^(***) AiMX (Accelerator-in-Memory based Accelerator): SK hynix’s accelerator card product that specializes in large language models using GDDR6-AiM chips