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CXL Consortium
The CXL Consortium is an open industry standards organization focused on developing and promoting the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard for high-speed connections in data centers. Founded by major tech companies, it aims to create technical specifications for CXL.
Overview
What CXL Consortium does
What CXL Consortium is
The CXL Consortium is an open industry standards organization focused on developing and promoting the Compute Express Link (CXL) standard for high-speed connections in data centers. Founded by major tech companies, it aims to create technical specifications for CXL.
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Operational profile
Organization status and context
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- Operational status
- Active
- Organization type
- Community
- Founded
- Founded in 2019
- Approximate age
- About 7 years
- Structured capabilities
- Community
- Last reviewed
- April 10, 2026
Official channels
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Capability profile
CXL Consortium as a community
Community overview
The Compute Express Link® (CXL®) Consortium is an industry-supported organization focused on developing an open standard interface for high-speed communications between processors, memory expansion, and accelerators. CXL technology maintains memory coherency between CPU memory and memory on attached devices, facilitating resource sharing for improved performance and reduced system costs. The consortium aims to support emerging applications such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
Community focus
CXL Consortium invests in the development of the CXL specification, which includes enhancements in bandwidth, connectivity, memory maintenance, and security. The latest version, CXL 4.0, doubles the bandwidth to 128GT/s and introduces features such as bundled ports and memory RAS enhancements. The consortium's focus is on high-speed communications and interoperability among devices in data centers.
Member value
Members of the CXL Consortium benefit from participation in a compliance program that allows them to test the functionality and interoperability of their products as defined in the CXL specification, enhancing product quality in the market.
Membership
- Pricing models
- free
Format and cadence
- Modality
- in-person
- Schedule
- rolling-admissions
- Commitment
- light
Availability
- Membership state
- Accepting
- Next recorded event
- November 12, 2023
Audience and fit
- Audience
- Founders · Investors · Corporate Innovators
- Benefits
- network-access and mentorship
- Program types
- community and other
- Selection criteria
- open
- Regions
- Global
Community activity
Events and activity
The CXL Consortium hosts several key events including the STAC Summit in New York, CXL Mini DevCon, AI Infra Summit, and participates in Supercomputing conferences. These events provide opportunities for networking, learning, and collaboration among industry leaders.
Notable members
The CXL Consortium includes notable member companies such as Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Samsung, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, and Huawei.
Common questions
What to know about CXL Consortium
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Last reviewed
April 10, 2026
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