During the last IT Press Tour #57, I’ve got the opportunity to learn about a new (for me) company: ZeroPoint Technologies presented by Klas Moreau (CEO).

This swedish company was a spinout from Chalmers University of Technology and has its HQ in Gothenburg and presence in California.

Digitalization quickly accelerates energy consumption and is projected to stand for more than one-fifth of global electricity demand by 2030. Maximizing performance per watt in servers and smart devices is critical to breaking the trend.

One of the aspect that can be optimized on the datacenters is the memory: actually it’s a bottleneck, it’s isinefficient and it’s expensive!

ZeroPoint has a hardware accelerated memory compression solution that works across the memory hierarchy and promises:

• 2-4x data compression, leading to increased capacity and bandwidth
• 50% higher performance per Watt
• up to 80% reduction in processor idle time
• 1,000x Faster than alternatives

A typical microchip memory contains up to 70% unnecessary information. ZeroPoint technology removes all that information by combining ultra-fast data compression with real-time data compaction and transparent memory management. Integrating these three areas into one solution for maximizing performance per watt makes ZeroPoint unique.

There are different products for the different level of memory:

• Cache MX: The Cache MX compression solution increases the cache capacity by 2x at an 80% area and power saving to comparable SRAM capacity.
• SuperRAM: High performance and low latency hardware accelerated compression at unmatched power efficiency.
• Ziptilion™ BW: Delivers up to 25% more (LP)DDR bandwidth at nominal frequency and power, enabling a significantly more performance and energy efficient SoC.
• DenseMem: Double the CXL connected memory capacity with data DenseMem.
• NVMe expansion: Extend NvMe storage capacity 2-4x with LZ4 or zstd hardware accelerated compression.
• SphinX: High Performance and Low Latency AES-XTS industry-standard encryption / decryption. Independent non-blocking encryption and decryption channels.

Four different types of data compression algorithms can be used, all of them (of course) with lossless compression:

• BDI, ZeroPoint proprietary
• ZID, ZeroPoint proprietary
• LZ4, Public standard
• ZSTD, Public standard

For more information on this technology, see the related whitepaper.