AMD says MEXT is running on 145 systems

Gary Smerdon, an AMD business-development executive, told The Register on Nov. 11 that MEXT, software AMD acquired in June, is deployed on 145 systems and that he estimates customers avoided about $5 million of DRAM cost. He said one PrimeTime case kept 95 percent of all-DRAM performance with half the memory on flash, 80 percent with a quarter of the DRAM, and that an Apache Spark case kept 99 percent at half DRAM. An October 2026 AMD white paper, on a separate PrimeTime test dated Oct. 1, 2025, reports about 87 percent of a 1.5 TB baseline at 768 GB, and The Register says license sales have not started.