FlexRAM: Toward an advanced Intelligent Memory system: A retrospective paper

Abstract

For conventional memory use, this design improves bandwidth, latency and energy characteristics - without changing the high-volume DRAM design. However, it is easy to imagine how to augment the capabilities of the logic die to support Intelligent Memory Operations. These can consist of preprocessing the data as it is read from the DRAM stack into the processor chip. They can also involve performing operations in place on the DRAM data.