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Tuesday, August 06, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,54294,00.html More Memory on the Way Andy Patrizio Researchers from the University of Southern California School of Engineering have developed a new type of memory that actually puts a processor on the DRAM chip, allowing for significantly faster memory performance and eliminating the gap between CPU and memory performance. The memory, called Data IntensiVe Architecture (DIVA), is a Processor in Memory (PIM) chip that contains four processors per memory chip, each capable of performing an 8-bit, 16-bit or 32-bit mathematical process. In contrast to standard memory chips that can process 32 bits of information, each PIM chip can process up to 256 bits. With the four reduced instruction-set computing (RISC) processors per chip, the memory has the ability to perform four operations simultaneously, instead of one at a time like traditional memory....
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