In March 2024, we rolled out a new page for our supported industry standards, a new page to detail our optical group capabilities, easier Reserve® filtering in our on-site search, and changed the font across all of Samtec.com.
Here were the major updates to Samtec.com for March 2024.
New CXL® Standards Page
CXL® is a breakthrough high-speed CPU-to-Device and CPU-to-Memory interconnect designed to accelerate next-generation data center performance.
CXL® is an open industry standard offering high-bandwidth low-latency connectivity between the host processor and devices such as accelerators, memory controller/expander, and smart I/O devices for heterogeneous computing and disaggregation use cases.
The CXL® Consortium is an open industry standard group formed to develop technical specifications that facilitate breakthrough performance for emerging usage models while supporting an open ecosystem for data center accelerators and other high-speed enhancements. The CXL® Consortium represents a wide range of industry expertise including leading cloud service providers, communications OEMs, IP/silicon/device providers and system OEMs.
We just rolled out this new page to detail our supported products for this exciting standard.
Take a look at the new CXL® Standards page here on Samtec.com – https://www.samtec.com/standards/cxl-interconnect/
Global Website Font Update
It may be difficult to tell because we tried not to be too disruptive with this update. Last week we completely swapped the font we use across the entire website, including this very blog to a new font. The change is subtle, but important because it removes reliance on a third-party that was making some changes we didn’t like to their delivery model.
This change quite literally touched every page of the website. If you pay close attention, you’ll notice the new font we’re using is slightly larger, which we hope to be easier on the eyes, and about 10% shorter than the previous font.
Since this is also from a new font provider with a better network, we may also see a slight increase in pageload times. Time will tell on that one.
New Samtec Optics Group Center of Excellence Page
Samtec is the industry leading provider of mid-board optical transceiver solutions. Our design tools and expertise help you develop systems with reliable signal integrity over extended distances in chip-to-chip, board-to-board, on-board and system-to-system connectivity. Samtec products are offered with industry leading Sudden Service® – full engineering support, online tools and a service attitude that is unmatched.
We just rolled out this new content page detailing our Samtec Optics Group and their capabilities to support customers in their product development.
Take a look at the new Samtec Optics Group Center of Excellence page here on Samtec.com – https://www.samtec.com/s2s/samtec-optics-group
Filter by Reserve in On-Site Search
We just rolled out a new feature in our on-site search that will allow users to filter by Reserve® products, our program that contains over 200,000 part numbers that will ship in 1-day or less, guaranteed.
You can try this out by heading to the Samtec homepage and searching any keyword, such as high speed connectors. From there, look to the top-left corner and just check the “Reserve®” checkbox. This should feel very familiar to similar search tools you’re already used to. All products shown will be in Reserve®, so you’re guaranteed to be able to get them quickly, again and again.
Coming Soon to Samtec.com
That does it for now. Thanks for being a loyal reader of The Samtec Blog.
Here is what we’re currently working on, and a few other updates that are coming soon!
- A full overhaul and simplification of our navigation structure
- An overhaul of our Pricing and Delivery system
- A major update to our on-site Search experience
- A major update to our Order Status system
- Several user-experience updates for major website applications
- Performance and speed improvements
- And more!
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