Marvell officially launched its second-generation Structera X 3406 and 3506 CXL memory expanders on October 12, according to Bloomberg. The company stated that these are the industry's first six-channel CXL 3.2 memory expanders, with a single controller supporting up to 9TB of DDR4 or 6TB of DDR5 memory, increasing the number of memory channels by 50% compared to the previous generation. The new products feature a built-in LZ4 compression engine, achieving compression and decompression throughput of up to 250GB/s, which can expand effective memory capacity by 2 to 3 times. Samples of both products are expected to be available to customers in the first quarter of 2027. This launch aims to address the growing memory bottleneck in AI inference workloads, with companies such as AMD, Arm, Alibaba, Samsung, and SK Hynix expressing support for the new products and related ecosystem collaboration.