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Definition: Zen


(1) A social collaboration platform. See blueKiwi ZEN.

(2) AMD's current CPU microarchitecture. Debuting in 2017, the Ryzen and EPYC chips are based on Zen. Zen 5 is the chip technology as of 2025, and Zen 6 is expected in 2026.

Starting with Zen 2, AMD began using chiplets for more cores per chip, and Zen 3 featured L3 caches vertically stacked on top of the cores to greatly expand the cache size. See Ryzen and EPYC.

(3) An open-source virtual machine hypervisor. See Xen.