Re Radical New In-Memory Computing Architecture Will Deliver 200X Speed Gain

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Joe Touch <touch () strayalpha com>
> Date: October 28, 2017 at 9:32:12 PM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Re Radical New In-Memory Computing Architecture Will Deliver 200X Speed Gain
>
> It has been taught under the name PIM for many many years too:
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_RAM
>
> (That entry looks ripe for some updates, based other responses, too)
>
> Joe
>
> > On Oct 28, 2017, at 6:00 PM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: Brett Glass <brett () lariat net>
> > > Date: October 28, 2017 at 8:45:05 PM EDT
> > > To: dave () farber net
> > > Subject: Re: [IP] Re Radical New In-Memory Computing Architecture Will Deliver 200X Speed Gain
> > >
> > > Dave:
> > >
> > > The idea of computational memory has a long history. At TI, in 1981, engineers discussed doing it within VRAM 
> > > ("video RAM"), a type of dual ported memory whose contents are repeatedly transferred to shift registers to be 
> > > output to a video display. I also broached it to my MSEE advisor at Stanford in 1984 as a way to accelerate 
> > > networking operations (in particular, the processing of TCP packets), and was informed that I was not the only 
> > > person who was interested in the idea.
> > >
> > > It's highly doubtful that any of this is novel or patentable.
> > >
> > > --Brett Glass
> >
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