Samsung Elec, Red Hat enter collaboration in next-gen memory software

[Source: Samsung Electronics Co.]

Samsung Electronics Co. Wednesday announced far-ranging collaboration in next-gen memory software technology with U.S. open source solutions provider Red Hat Inc. as it goes all-out to strengthen its chip leadership through $356 billion investment pledge for the next five years.

The two companies under the partnership will cooperate on software development related to next-gen memory solutions like for non-volatile memory express (NVMe) SSDs and CXL memory and jointly conduct verification work and promotional activity, Samsung Electronics said Wednesday.

Before the latest partnership, the Korean chipmaker announced that it has signed a memorandum of understanding for collaboration on technology standardization and software development for data replacement, processing and fabrics (D2PF) storage technologies like ‘Zoned Storage’ with U.S. Western Digital in March.

Samsung Electronics through the collaborations aims to become a total memory solutions provider that can shift the industry paradigm and bring new memory ecosystem.

The world’s largest memory chipmaker plans to launch a testbed for memory rolutions, dubbed Samsung Memory Research Cloud (SMRC), in the second half of the year to provide environment to evaluate new software products in configuring optimal combinations with memory hardware for clients.

“Samsung and Red Hat will make a concerted effort to define and standardize memory software solutions that embrace evolving server and memory hardware, while building a more robust memory ecosystem,” said Bae Yongcheol, executive vice president and head of the memory application engineering team at Samsung Electronics. “We will invite partners from across the IT industry to join us in expanding the software-hardware memory ecosystem to create greater customer value.”

Marjet Adriesse, senior vice president and head of Red Hat Asia Pacific also welcomed the collaboration, saying the integration of memory-centric hardware and software architectures will become increasingly essential, and for this purpose, “Red Hat is happy to participate in the joint undertaking with Samsung.”

Samsung Electronics a day earlier announced a $356 billion investment pledge for chip, bio and IT sector over the next five years, of which 80 percent will go to facility and R&D investment, to cement its global leadership. The scale nearly doubles its mid-term capex goal from last year.

Samsung Electronics shares were trading 0.60 percent higher at 66,900 won in Seoul trading at 2:25 p.m. Wednesday.

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