AMD Unveils MEXT Memory Management Solution, Halving DRAM Usage Through AI

According to reports, AMD released MEXT predictive memory software. It uses AI to manage data placement between DRAM and SSD, temporarily staging less-used data on flash storage and then using AI to predict subsequent demand and move it back to DRAM in advance, reducing the time applications wait for data. Tests of specific agent workloads demonstrated by the company showed that DRAM usage could be halved while still retaining 99% of the performance of an all-DRAM configuration. AMD said MEXT can be paired with dedicated NVMe SSDs and used in on-premises, cloud, virtual machine, and container environments. Existing EPYC servers can also adopt it, allowing customers to increase effective memory capacity or reduce physical DRAM configurations in new systems.