“AMD joins the other members of the Gen-Z Consortium in celebrating the release of the Gen-Z Gen 1.0 open standard for high-performance, cross platform interconnect technology. Low-latency access to memory and storage in the datacenter is an area of pressing need for open ecosystems and technology development. With this significant step, Gen-Z has defined an advanced, modern protocol designed to deliver a high-performance, cross-platform solution.” – Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Datacenter and Embedded Systems Group, AMD