For systems to become faster and consume less power, they must stop wasting the power required to move data around and start adding processing near memory. This approach has been proven, and products are entering the marketplace designed to fill a number of roles. Processing near memory, also known as computational memory, has been hiding in the shadows for more than a decade. Ever since the introduction of flash memory, powerful processing capabilities were required in the memory just to make it work. Wear leveling and garbage collection are just a few of the functions that are being performed.
But a lot more processing could be done in the memory. Consider a system that is meant to be secure. Why not process the data in the memory, where the data is encrypted, rather than having to decrypt it and transfer the data across the bus where it could be intercepted? Why not perform searches on large amounts of data in the memory, only transferring the likely matches for more in-depth processing?
Read more at:
/Service Ventures Team
Comments