At the inaugural Xcelerated Compute Show 2026 in New York City, the industry came together to tackle one of the most pressing challenges in modern computing: efficiently scaling infrastructure for AI. As a Media & Industry Partner, the CXL Consortium was thrilled to introduce CXL – the open standard for coherent disaggregated memory.
Across keynotes, panels, and technical sessions, the Xcelerated Compute Show highlighted that traditional, tightly coupled system architectures are no longer sufficient to support emerging AI workloads. As models continue to grow in complexity, the demands on infrastructure are rapidly increasing, requiring greater memory capacity, higher utilization of existing resources, and greater flexibility to adapt to dynamic, evolving workloads. CXL enables scalable, efficient AI performance to meet the needs of the industry.
During the show, the Consortium discussed how enterprises can scale their AI performance with CXL. In the “State of Storage – How data storage will make or break AI success” panel, CXL contributed to a broader discussion on how data movement, storage architectures, and memory hierarchies must evolve together to support AI at scale. Watch the panel recording HERE.
Additionally, the CXL Consortium held a dedicated special presentation that provided a high-level overview of CXL technology and how it helps accelerate AI workloads by reducing memory bottlenecks, improving resource utilization, and enabling composable, disaggregated systems. During the session, Anil Godbole, CXL Consortium Marketing Working Group (MWG) Chair, discussed how CXL-based memory sharing and pooling can reduce costs, improve performance, and support larger models across heterogeneous compute environments. View the full session recording HERE.
At the CXL Consortium kiosk, attendees engaged with CXL representatives to explore real-world use cases, from AI training clusters to cloud-scale deployments. As an open standard, CXL provides the foundation for interoperable, cache-coherent connectivity between CPUs, GPUs, accelerators, and memory. This allows organizations to break free from rigid system boundaries and build disaggregated environments where memory becomes a shared, high-performance resource.
Looking ahead, the CXL Consortium will continue to build on the momentum from the Xcelerated Compute Show by presenting at the STAC Summit – New York. The Consortium will also be participating in FMS 2026, AI Infra Summit, SC26 and more! Following the CXL Consortium via LinkedIn to stay up to date on the Consortium’s latest activities.