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AMD Talks Up Their MEXT Software Amid RAM Crisis - Linux Support But Not Open-Source

Phoronix · US · Operating Systems · 11/10/2026, 12:00:02 PM

This summer AMD acquired the company MEXT for their AI-powered predictive memory technology to make flash memory such as NVMe SSDs behave more like DRAM. AMD MEXT with EPYC servers allows for flash memory as DRAM tiering and uses a predictive AI engine for handling the tiering in an effective way. There is a Linux driver but this is one of the few offerings in the AMD space that isn't open-source as part of their typical open ecosystem approach...

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