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One-chip-like datacenter design enabled by CXL-based scale-up fabrics

Aug 2026 · Nature Reviews Electrical Engineering · Vol 3, pp. 564 - 578 · 0 citations · 145 references

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A one-chip-like standpoint for understanding how datacenter infrastructures are evolving to support AI workloads is introduced, highlighting how one-chip-like datacenter extends chip-level semantics to rack scale by combining compute express link fabrics with hardware mechanisms, thereby stabilizing latency variability along traversal paths.

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