ZeroPoint Releases Hardware-Accelerated Memory Optimization Solutions

In the months that have passed since ZeroPoint Technologies AB announced its last funding round, the company has launched 2 hardware-accelerated products that optimize the performance, bandwidth, and efficiency of enterprise and hyperscale storage solutions.

Additionally, the company received a Best of Show award for most innovative technology at FMS 2024, and was highlighted in a research note by industry analyst firm Moor Insights & Strategy.

“ZeroPoint Technologies has leveraged our recent funding round to accelerate product delivery and industry engagement,” said Klas Moreau, CEO, ZeroPoint. “Our memory optimization technologies can increase the efficiency, performance, and capacity of enterprise and hyperscale computing applications across a wide variety of use cases.  As an organization, we are driven by the ambitious mission to make this technology the industry standard.“

Over 70% of data stored is redundant and therefore substantial memory capacity is being wasted. ZeroPoint’s products remove much of the redundant data without losing information, which increases memory capacity and bandwidth. The company’s IP is proven to increase memory capacity by 2-4x while also delivering up to 50% more performance/watt. In combination, these 2 effects can reduce the total cost of ownership of data center servers by up to 25%. This is accomplished by the company’s patented compression and compaction technologies that operate 1,000x faster than comparable software-based solutions.

Adds products for hardware-accelerated LZ4 and zstd compression and decompression
In August, the company released products that deliver high-performance compression and decompression. These IP-block based products bring the high-speed performance and energy efficiency of the LZ4 and zstd algorithms to hardware, providing benefits for a range of storage-related enterprise and hyperscale implementations. More about these products.

Both zstd and LZ4 meaningfully increase the compression and decompression speed of stored data. The firm’s hardware-accelerated offerings increase data bandwidth (by 1.5 – 2.0x) compared to today’s widely-used software-based implementations. As with most of ZeroPoint’s optimization solutions, these 2 new offerings also enable customers to reclaim the CPU cycles (typically 3-5% of overall CPU cycles) associated with software-based implementations of compression and decompression algorithms.

Industry awards and research notes
Over the summer, the company received notable recognition from industry award programs and analyst research.

• In July, Matt Kimball, industry analyst, Moor Insights & Strategy, published a research note detailing the critical need for increasingly efficient and high-performance memory technologies, writing “For enterprises grappling with the twin imperatives of driving performance and reducing costs, ZeroPoint provides a compelling solution. If your memory vendor, CPU provider, or cloud service is not leveraging ZeroPoint’s technology, it’s worth asking why.“

• In August, at the FMS 24 conference, the company was recognized with a FMS Best of Show award for innovative technology. Specifically, the firm‘s DenseMem CXL Memory Controller offering, which introduces a compressed CXL memory tier, was called out as a Most Innovative Technology in the DRAM controller category.  As with the majority of ZeroPoint’s hardware-accelerated memory optimization technologies, DenseMem is engineered to provide substantial benefits to end users. The technology increases memory capacity and bandwidth, improves performance/watt by up to 50%, and can reduce the TCO for end-users operating at hyperscale. The technology increases memory capacity and bandwidth, improves performance/watt by up to 50%, and can reduce the TCO for end-users operating at hyperscale.