Gen-Z Consortium prepares for the future of storage and memory
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AMD, Lenovo, IBM, and a host of other big names in computing have joined together to form the Gen-Z Consortium. The group is working together to create an "open systems interconnect" known as Gen-Z that aims to bridge the gap between memory and storage. Specifically, Gen-Z is a "fabric protocol" that allows systems to abstract all types of memory and storage, both local and networked, as Gen-Z devices.
Essentially, the idea is to allow software to access any type of storage as memory using low-latency, high-efficiency operations. To that end, the new protocol is "memory-semantic." That means that all operations are ...