HPE, IBM, ARM, Samsung and pals in plot to weave 'memory fabric'

A group of suppliers have got together as a consortium to develop Gen-Z - a scalable, high-performance bus or interconnect fabric linking computers and memory. The Gen-Z consortium is an open, non-proprietary, transparent industry standards body. It says it believes open standards provide a level playing field to promote adoption, innovation and choice. Consortium members are #AMD, #ARM, #Broadcom, #Cavium Inc, #Cray, #Dell #EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise ( #HPE ), #Huawei, #IBM, #IDT, #Lenovo, #Mellanox Technologies, #Micron, #Microsemi, #RedHat, #Samsung, #Seagate, #SKHynix, #WesternDigital Corporation and #Xilinx. See anyone missing? Yup, it's the monopoly data centre and server CPU supplier #Intel. Curious that. Especially as its XPoint-developing buddy, Micron, is a member. Any other missing candidates? #Cisco 's not present and, as a #UCS server supplier, we might think it had an interest in CPU-memory fabrics.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/11/memory_fabric_needed_for_storageclass_memory/