Gen-Z (consortium)
| Formation | October 11, 2016 |
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| Dissolved | January 2022; transferred to Compute Express Link |
The Gen-Z Consortium was a trade group of technology vendors involved in designing CPUs, random access memory, servers, storage, and accelerators. The goal was to design an open and royalty-free "memory-semantic" bus protocol, which is not limited by the memory controller of a CPU, to be used in either a switched fabric or a point-to-point device link on a standard connector.
In November 2021, the GenZ Consortium voted to transfer all its specifications and intellectual property to the CXL Consortium.