If we travel back 2 years in time, before the rapid rise in AI, much of the datacenter hardware world was chasing CXL. It was promised as the messiah to bring heterogenous compute, memory pooling, and composable server architectures. Existing players and a whole new host of startups were rushing to integrate CXL into their products, or create new CXL based products such as memory expanders, poolers, and switches. Fast forward to 2023 and early 2024, and many projects have been quietly shelved an...