Electronic Design features a writeup on Gen-Z

IntelliProp continues to play a key role in the memory and component disaggregation space with new POCs.  Disaggregation allows for creating separate pools of computing resources that can be allocated to applications as needed. While data centers are able to disaggregate storage, memory disaggregation has been elusive. However, implementation of Gen-Z enables disaggregation of memory to allow for memory devices and CPUs/SoCs to evolve independently, as opposed to being tightly coupled together as they are today. This is achieved by moving the memory controller into the memory device, creating a memory semantic link, and using low-latency forward error correction (FEC) (if needed) to drive high-speed differential pair signaling over a longer distance between CPUs and memory than is currently the case.

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