ETRI Breaks the "Memory Wall" in Large-Scale AI Training

South Korean researchers have successfully developed a core technology that can fundamentally resolve "memory shortages," a chronic bottleneck in large-scale artificial intelligence (AI) training. This technology is a next-generation memory expansion technology based on Ethernet, which is expected to drive infrastructural innovation across the entire AI and big data industries in the future. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) announced that it has developed "OmniXtend," a new memory technology that overcomes GPU memory capacity limits and data movement overheads, which are regarded as the biggest problems in large-scale AI training.