This is such a novel and strange device. I can imagine it might be useful for a lot of things, but what? The non-Von Neuman architecture (putting compute next to memory) has been tried many times and AFAIK never taken hold. What would you use this for?
This is such a novel and strange device. I can imagine it might be useful for a lot of things, but what? The non-Von Neuman architecture (putting compute next to memory) has been tried many times and AFAIK never taken hold. What would you use this for?
> SSDs as Memory
They've implemented mmap() in hardware. What a time to be alive?!
nb: Related discussion on Samsung's PIM from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49487341
In a couple more decades we might even get to the same sophistication as the AS/400…