Open specs slash AI hardware integration to months

Open specifications could cut the time hyperscalers need to integrate new hardware from nine to eighteen months down to three to six months, according to Samsung Semiconductor senior principal engineer Siamak Tavallaei. Speaking at the AI Data Pipeline Forum, Tavallaei explained that open communities like the Open Compute Project help multiple suppliers build interoperable systems around standards such as PCIe and CXL. He noted that hardware defined in the open draws broader industry input, raising adoption and volume. Samsung recently demonstrated CXL memory pooling with AMD at the OCP summit.