# Open specs speed AI data center builds

> Open hardware specs cut AI data center integration from years to months.
- Title: Open specs speed AI data center builds · SiliconANGLE
- Summary: Open hardware specs cut AI data center integration from years to months. Open specifications reduce AI data center hardware integration time from a year to…
- Keywords: open compute project, ai data center, hardware interoperability, cxl, hyperscalers, samsung semiconductor, azure cloud, technology, enterprise, Open, specs, speed
- Source: SiliconANGLE — https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/14/hardware-interoperability-open-specs-speed-ai-data-center-builds-aidatapipelineforum
- Author: Sloane Kali Faye
- Published: 2026-10-14T23:30:09+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: open compute project, ai data center, hardware interoperability, cxl, hyperscalers, samsung semiconductor, azure cloud, technology, enterprise
## Hardware interoperability
Open specs speed ai data center builds.

> open specs could cut ai data center hardware integration from a year to months
## OCP integrates hardware
Open Compute Project combines technologies from multiple suppliers into complete systems.

> open communities such as the open compute project integrate separately developed technologies
## Samsung engineer explains
Siamak Tavallaei says interoperability matters for hardware integration.

> there are different companies skilled in different aspects of the problem
## OCP server project
Tavallaei co-led ocp's server project at microsoft azure.

> software was what microsoft was doing well but we wanted hardware to be common
## Open specs boost adoption
Open specifications increase adoption and reduce integration time for hyperscalers.

> if you were to work that with the community different people will interject their own ideas
## Cxl memory pooling
Samsung demonstrates cxl memory pooling with advanced micro devices.

> samsung recently demonstrated cxl memory pooling with advanced micro devices inc
## Integration time reduction
Open specs cut integration time from 12 months to 3-6 months for hyperscalers.

> whereas if things are crisply defined in a specification integrating might take three months or six months instead of a year or year and a half
## Key takeaway

Open specifications reduce AI data center hardware integration time from a year to three to six months.