# Primemas Shatters AI Memory Wall at FMS 2026 with CXL Full-Stack Products and Micron Collaboration on the Abaco Project

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- Published: 2026-08-24T20:00:00+07:00
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_Showcasing the industry’s only end-to-end CXL 3.0 portfolio and a pioneering 100TB-
class Abaco Disaggregated Memory System planned for deployment at PNNL _

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 24, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Primemas Inc., a pioneer in next-
generation AI memory system architectures and chiplet-based silicon, showcased its
latest CXL memory innovations at the Future of Memory and Storage (FMS) 2026. At
the event, the company highlighted the industry’s most comprehensive CXL memory 
portfolio and its strategic collaboration with Micron on the Abaco Project, a rack-
scale compute system with over 100TB of CXL-attached shared and pooled memory developed
for the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to power
next-generation, large-scale scientific AI, HPC and data-intensive workloads. The
Abaco Project is supported by DOE’s Office of Science, Advanced Scientific Computing
Research program.

As datasets for AI and data-intensive workloads scale beyond traditional hardware
boundaries, data centers are severely bottlenecked by static local memory limits.
Primemas and Micron Technology are working together to address this fundamental 
infrastructure challenge by pioneering a new paradigm. Rather than forcing expensive
server over-provisioning, the Abaco System Architecture transforms memory into a
dynamic, rack-scale infrastructure layer, allowing advanced CPU and GPU compute 
clusters to seamlessly access hundreds of terabytes of pooled Micron DDR5 memory
within a single rack.

**Primemas CXL Add-In Cards and Controller Silicon: The Core Engine of the Abaco
System Architecture**

The Primemas CXL add-in card is a PCIe-based CXL memory expansion card with 14 or
16 RDIMM slots, supporting up to 3.5TB or 4TB of DRAM capacity, respectively, when
populated with 256GB RDIMMs. These products, referred to as the PMA14 and PMA16,
deliver up to four times the memory capacity per CXL port compared with conventional
monolithic alternatives. The CXL add-in cards are scheduled for shipment to Micron
in September, where they’ll be installed in the Abaco system racks to begin testing,
qualification and benchmarking efforts.    

While the Abaco rack-based system architecture reflects a collaborative ecosystem
integration between several companies, Primemas’ advanced controller silicon provides
the foundation that enables the architecture. This foundation is Primemas’ proprietary
Hublet^(®) architecture. Without Primemas’ high-density silicon capable of aggregating
terabytes of DRAM, the high memory density required by PNNL’s advanced scientific
AI workloads would not be achievable. Furthermore, by deploying three to four Abaco
chassis per server rack, data center operators can build shared memory pools exceeding
100TB, unlocking a new scale of memory infrastructure for AI, HPC, and data-intensive
applications.

**SLiM – Revolutionizing AI Inference and KV Cache Offloading**

While the Abaco Project demonstrates Primemas’ ability to scale memory capacity 
for massive AI workloads, the company also unveiled SLiM (Switchless Pooled Memory),
a breakthrough memory architecture designed for KV-cache-intensive AI inference 
workloads that demand both high capacity and ultra-high bandwidth. Designed as a
space-efficient 1U system, SLiM expands KV-cache capacity and enables multiple servers
to access tens of terabytes of shared DRAM with ultra-low latency, without the cost
and complexity of external CXL switches.

**Strategic Validation of the New AI Memory Era**

"As AI and data-intensive workloads continue to drive unprecedented demand for memory,
the industry needs new architectures that can scale memory capacity more efficiently
across the data center," said Luis Ancajas, director of CXL product management and
business development at Micron. "In collaboration with PNNL, the Department of Energy
and ecosystem partners like Primemas, Micron is helping advance memory system architecture
innovations to deliver critical enterprise and data center-ready CXL solutions to
the market."

"PNNL’s scientific AI and HPC workloads have memory footprints that no single server
can satisfy, and over-provisioning every node is neither practical nor affordable,"
said Sumit Puri, Co-Founder and CTO at Liqid. "Our collaboration with Primemas and
Micron on Abaco pairs high-density CXL silicon and Micron DDR5 with Liqid’s memory
pooling solution and fabric management, so compute clusters can reach hundreds of
terabytes of system memory as a single, orchestrated pool."

"FMS 2026 validated a clear industry shift toward disaggregated and shared memory
architectures, and Primemas is proud to be at the forefront of this transition,"
said Joseph Baco, VP of Business Development at Primemas. "The strong interest in
our upcoming Abaco deployment at PNNL and our switchless SLiM solution demonstrates
that data centers are actively seeking to overcome the limitations of traditional
server architectures. The reception at FMS confirms that the industry is moving 
beyond static local memory toward a more flexible, efficient, and AI-optimized future."

Building on this momentum, Primemas also highlighted its roadmap for intelligent
memory systems, integrating CPU and FPGA acceleration capabilities directly within
its proprietary Hublet^(®) architecture to create advanced near-memory computing
platforms for AI and database acceleration. To learn more about the PNNL Abaco deployment
or other Primemas products, please contact the Primemas business development team
at [contact@primemas.com](https://www.thailand-business-news.com/pr-news/contact@primemas.com).

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**About Primemas**

Primemas is a fabless semiconductor company delivering pre-built SoC hub chiplets(
Hublet®) to streamline development and manufacturing—reducing the cost and time 
associated with custom design and production. The Hublet® platform provides scalable
I/O, control, and compute functionality, supporting markets such as CXL, AI, and
data analytics. Primemas is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, with an R&
D center in Seoul, South Korea. To learn more about Primemas, visit [www.primemas.com](https://www.primemas.com/).

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